Oslo principals are upset that confidential discussions have been published. - Aftenposten

– Yes, we will use our legal expertise to look at management contracts. We are committed to openness to what schools should be working for, but not all are going out in public. It must be resolved, says the head of the union, Ragnhild Lied.

Aftenposten has gained access to the grades Oslo puts on principals. Only one principal gets top grade 5, no bottoms with 1 but 2 more people The proportion of low grades are numerous. A total of 43 of 123 Oslo principals had grade 2 A total of principals rated at 42 different sites.

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confidential information from appraisals to have reached the public. Something that might be illegal.

Across the border

- Yes, it can be over the border to the illegal, says Henning M. Heitmann, one of the leading employment law attorneys at the law firm Steenstrup Stordrange.

He states that he has not seen the decision by the county governor.

Education in Oslo initially said no to disclosure because management contracts contain confidential information that has emerged during appraisals. However, the County Governor of Oslo and Akershus turned.

– normally perceived appraisals as confidential between employer and employee and no one publication. I was a bit surprised by the county governor’s decision, but I do not know what’s going behind, said Heitmann.

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Labor laws for political games by Aftenposten article in yesterday.

Labor group in Oslo, Libe Rieber-Mohn, went in today Aftenposten attacked the municipal manager contracts. She believes principals measured on too many areas and that a principal alone can not be held responsible for everything in a school. Labor is going to take up the matter of the City Council.

Education Association, which has 156 000 members, says CEO contracts must be completely away – whatever form.

– Such contracts are not something positive out of. Recognized research turns on the contrary stated that dialogue and mutual respect between the levels of the educational system is what brings results, says Lied.

She characterizes the arrangement as “old-fashioned management.”

– This is an unfortunate simplification of what education should be about leadership. Oslo narrows the mission school has received. At the same time put the principals in an impossible situation since the contracts shall also indicate whether they are good educational leaders. But principals are not the regulatory framework to make it part of the job. They must spend most of their time on pure administrative tasks. Even the janitor mission as changing light bulbs, she said.

No time …

A survey response analysis has been made for the union among principals in primary and secondary in October 2012, shows heavy workloads. The 74 percent of principals at primary level responded that they did not have time to be professional managers for teachers.

high school match nearly two out of three principals, or 62 percent, the same thing: that they do not have time to follow up the teachers and give them feedback on their work.

– study here shows the frustration of the principals. We want to enter into dialogue with the education authority in Oslo to see how we can clean up. What is needed to achieve good educational leadership? Here we have a lot of good research on what roads we should go, says Lied.

– Have you received many inquiries from Oslo principals?

– Yes, our county made there. The principals are distraught over the contracts, but also that the municipality can not live the promise of confidentiality in the performance appraisal, says Ragnhild Lied.