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Wu names school-superintendent search committee; goal is to have new superintendent in place for next school year
By adamg on Thu, 03/03/2022 - 9:37am
Mayor Wu and School Committee Chair Jeri Robinson today announced a nine-member search committee and a process for finding a replacement for current BPS Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, starting with a series of "public listening sessions" and the hiring of a search firm to help manage the process.
In a statement, Wu and Robinson said the public meetings this month and next will help guide the committee first identify the specific criteria for a new superintendent and to then "inform" the interview and selection process. The city last week issued an RFP for outside consulting firms to help on the search.
The goal is to announce finalists by June, hold interviews with them and then have the School Committee offer one a contract by the end of June.
Wu, Robinson and Cassellius announced last month one of those "mutual agreements" that Cassellius would leave at the end of the current year.
The members of the search committee: Pam Eddinger, president of Bunker Hill Community College; Roxi Harvey, chair of the BPS Special Education Parent Advisory Council; Lorena Lopera, member of the Boston School Committee; Marcus McNeill, student at Fenway High School; Michael O'Neill, vice chair of the Boston School Committee; Carline Pignato, head of school at Channing Elementary School; Gene Roundtree, secondary school superintendent at BPS; Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union; and José Valenzuela, teacher at Boston Latin Academy.
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Lather
Rinse, repeat.
Who's next to cover up the BPS' failures for two years and then get fired?
At least you get severance.
Sure
They'll claim that they want change/improvement. Then when whomever is selected tries to implement that, the teachers union/parents will complain and dig in their heels and then this will repeat itself again. Time for the state to just takeover the BPS.
You're not wrong
State receivership is the only way BPS ends this cycle.
Receivership hasn’t worked…
Everyone says “receivership” without looking at the track record of MA DESE Receivership.
Spoiler Alert: Receivership doesn’t work.
DESE intervened in Southbridge, Holyoke and Lawrence and those districts remain low performing (according the DESE criteria which relies heavily on MCAS scores). Even worse, DESE took over the command of the UP Holland and Dever with disastrous results.
https://www.baystatebanner.com/2021/09/29/is-receivership-in-the-cards-f...
Wow, talk about a missed
Wow, talk about a missed leadership opportunity, we might, instead of we will.
Scapegoat wanted for temporary Superintendent position
Expect a 2 to 4 year term before you're asked to resign. You must be skilled in using buzzwords like inclusive and equity and must be willing to let the teachers union call the shots behind the scenes.
Good luck! .
It's a no-win job
You have to deal with scores of well-organized groups, each who demand that their problem be placed first. Many of these demands are diametrically opposite of the demands of other groups. I hate to say it, but you need an authoritarian leader, with almost unlimited power and resources who can come in and make a lot of bold changes. Maybe having the state take over isn't the worst idea.
We want a superintendent who
We want a superintendent who can make childhood as uncomplicated as it looked in Leave it to Beaver.
Just for show
It seems obvious by the amount of time and by the way that Major Wu is talking about her wishes that she has already chosen her candidate. Now the city has to spend a lot of funds on a search firm and, worse, waste the time of Boston parents for the pretense on vetting and community engagement.
It’s fine, just announce who you want and stop with all the theater.
Really?
And who is that candidate and what evidence is there that this person has already been "chosen"?
As Yogi Berra would say, "It
As Yogi Berra would say, "It's deja vu all over again."