Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Education / Woods News from Planet School Board
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:43 AM
Today's City Paper would make George Orwell proud. First, the school board blatantly violates the state's sunshine law by casting secret ballots during its search for a new superintendent. Then Pith points it out and the board is forced to redo the vote. And that chain of events produces this City Paper headline: "School board works to add transparency to director search."
Unless I missed it, the story neglects to mention the sunshine law violation but points only to "a flaw in the search protocol." With newspaper stories like this, who needs flacks? The board should fire its communications shop and save some money. While I'm at it, what's up with the board's new interest in communicating with Mayor Karl Dean? It finally seems to have dawned on Alan Coverstone that the board's absurd superintendent search might be a bad idea, especially since Dean's against it. "What I think we really need right now is some clear support from the mayor. ... No one benefits, really, if we don't understand why we're doing what we're doing," Coverstone says. Understanding why we're doing what we're doing--that's a novel idea for the school board. We're guessing the board might not receive such a warm response from the mayor on this topic. Here's what a Pith source close to the mayor says about it all: "Unbelievable. The school board never ceases to amaze."
Unless I missed it, the story neglects to mention the sunshine law violation but points only to "a flaw in the search protocol." With newspaper stories like this, who needs flacks? The board should fire its communications shop and save some money. While I'm at it, what's up with the board's new interest in communicating with Mayor Karl Dean? It finally seems to have dawned on Alan Coverstone that the board's absurd superintendent search might be a bad idea, especially since Dean's against it. "What I think we really need right now is some clear support from the mayor. ... No one benefits, really, if we don't understand why we're doing what we're doing," Coverstone says. Understanding why we're doing what we're doing--that's a novel idea for the school board. We're guessing the board might not receive such a warm response from the mayor on this topic. Here's what a Pith source close to the mayor says about it all: "Unbelievable. The school board never ceases to amaze."
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Hey, it's nice to agree with you about something again.
Yes, wouldn't it be great if they had a clue? Too much to hope for from elected officials??
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Laura Creekmore
on December 10, 2008 at 10:44 AM
