http://educationmatters.us/2006/06/23/school-board-perks/ Reform Education because Education Matters. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:37:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://educationmatters.us/2006/06/23/school-board-perks/comment-page-1/#comment-7326 Education Matters US » It’s the System Stupid Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:26:43 +0000 http://educationmatters.us/?p=579#comment-7326 [...] A board attempting to rebuild public trust should be erring on the side of extensive explanations to the public and infinite patience in answering questions. And given it laid a major portion of the responsibility on its previously hired administrative leaders, it had better be able to show the public why and how its personnel judgment is above reproach now. To our mind, it hasn’t done so, and the coincidence of hiring a sitting board member who happened to be unemployed does little to answer that question of hiring judgment. If anything, it raises more questions, questions a board trying to restore its credibility simply cannot afford. [...] [...] A board attempting to rebuild public trust should be erring on the side of extensive explanations to the public and infinite patience in answering questions. And given it laid a major portion of the responsibility on its previously hired administrative leaders, it had better be able to show the public why and how its personnel judgment is above reproach now. To our mind, it hasn’t done so, and the coincidence of hiring a sitting board member who happened to be unemployed does little to answer that question of hiring judgment. If anything, it raises more questions, questions a board trying to restore its credibility simply cannot afford. [...]

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