Saturday, September 18, 2010

This Is How Much The Community And Media Care About The CCSD Superintendent Search

CCSD, the 5th largest school district in the country is about to hire a new superintendent that will affect hundreds of thousands of students and tens of thousands of employees.
Since the announcement came out on Thursday, we have been treated with minimal news. The Las Vegas Sun ran about a 5 paragraph story and it had about 20 comments. The LVRJ cut and pasted information about the candidates from stories from areas where the candidates are from. KDWN ran with the story on their newscast on Thursday and Friday, about 30 seconds worth and it was the same story. Hell, I have far more information about the candidates than either the LVRJ and the Sun combined.
The CCEA, the teachers union, has noting on it's web site. Maybe it's not important to them?
Nothing was printed or posted on Saturday. There has been no editorials about the candidates. No in depth reporting about the candidates. No one has question how the school board got these names from the company that was charged with selecting the final 3 candidates.
For instance. no one has questioned why there is one white candidate, one black candidate and 1 Hispanic candidate in the finals. Did the school board order this? Is it a coincidence?
How did Dwight Jones get on the list? He oversees 300 only employees and has been a superintendent of a district of only 6500 students and has had a history of questionable personal spending. And this qualifies him to run the 5th largest school school district in the country?
How did Michael Hinojosa get on the list? He comes from the Dallas Independent School District. He is doing such a great job that the Dallas school district is not renewing his contract when it expires. In addition, he comes from a mediocre, at best, school district that is below CCSD in standards. Further, he completely blew a budget a few years ago, which resulted in several hundred Dallas teachers being fired.
Jim Browder, from Lee County, seems to be the best candidate, but he is in a bidding war right now, as Lee County wants to keep him, Edison schools wants to hire him and CCSD would like to hire him. Are we going to get into a bidding war with those 2 other schools? I am also finding out more information that CCSD needs to know.
From my thinking, it seems like with the exception of a few people, this community lacks total apathy in regards to who the new superintendent will be, which is a shame.

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