The statement below indicates that superintendent candidates must have a PhD. I may be wrong, but I believe that this is incorrect. They must have at least a Doctor of Education, which while requiring the same amount of course work as a PhD, does not require that a thesis be written or defended.
Thus, any aspiring educational administrator just has to spend free summers attending classes for some years, get merely passing grades, and a "Doctor's" degree might be granted. I believe that David Jennings' experience might well qualify him as much as a half dozen years of cushy summertime academics. Ray Marshall Hiawatha --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:59:27 -0500 From: WizardMarks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Paul Kuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Mpls] David Jennings Paul Kuettel wrote: >Dave Jennings has been described by "insiders I know" as a great Speaker of the >House. .... This is a talented and intelligent man, degrees or not. .... Ah, but he is a middle-aged white guy, and that's what the kerfuffle is all about, despite protestations to the contrary. > >WM: The kerfluffle is that the rules changed. The rules were that persons aspiring to superintendent status had to have a PhD in some aspect of education and experience as an educator in a school setting. Those who aspired went about the expensive proposition of getting credentials and put in their time as classroom teachers. Then the rules changed! This happens to women and people of color often and it's an insult and illegal. It's not about David Jennings, per se, but about changing the rules in mid-stream. Again, the rules were changed to accommodate a white guy. > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
