Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Good luck with that!
S.F. is looking for a new superintendent. In case you haven't been following, the previous one, Arlene Ackerman, was chased out of town for prioritizing teaching children over feel-good community meetings. They now need a replacement who understands that teaching children is not priority number 1.
The San Diego Unified School District, the state's second largest after Los Angeles, recently hired a new superintendent who started work this month. One of its school board members, Katherine Nakamura, said hiring an "excellent consultant … who held our feet to the fire when we got off task," as well as involving the community, helped them to not only find a top-notch chief but to restore public faith in the school board, which, like San Francisco, had a reputation for its divisiveness.
"This [choosing a superintendent] is the most important thing they're going to do, period," Nakamura said. "If you can pull that off, people will cut you a lot of slack."
The assumption here being that slack will be needed in the future. That's the kind of confidence I expect from my elected officials.
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