Pros
Teachers and staff are friendly and give 100%.
Cons
The turnover rate is sky-high because leadership is so inadequate. Superintendent Gonzalez is sorely lacking in professionalism. She ran teacher inservice while I was there, and it was painfully obvious that she had thrown her presentations together at the very last minute. Her facts and figures were wrong, and the activities she forced us to engage in were quite pointless. When I taught at DaVinci, TWENTY-EIGHT teachers quit in the fall semester - just ONE SEMESTER! - because of her rude, arrogant, incompetent ways. A friend of mine was invited to speak at a UTEP graduate education class panel discussion around this same time, and he came home complaining about this annoying, self-important woman (a graduate student) who spent the whole time messing with her phone. I knew Magladeno was attending UTEP, showed him a picture of her, and sure enough...
The only reason she's advanced as far as she has in the organization is that she's okay with being a puppet for Burnham, who wanted to retire but did not want to give up control of the schools she founded.