There are several differences in the comparison of the Seattle vs
Minneapolis Superintendent hiring process worth
noting: The board used a representative committee; the interim
Superintendent had a record of solving problems with the
teacher's union; and a significant part of the board was up for
re-election in a month.
What are the specifics that make the un-chosen Seattle candidates
appealing for Minneapolis? Can they get committed to MPS?
(Note: the link in Mr. Schapiro's post did not get me to the story.??)
Below are a few lines from the article I found via the "education" link
of the Seattle Times.-
"A week ago, a citizens advisory committee created by the Seattle
School Board to assist in the search for a new
superintendent completed its task. The committee's members could have
shaken hands, gone their separate ways. End of
story.
Instead, the diverse committee of about 20 core participants may
have emerged as one successful product of a painful
search process and could evolve into an advisory board to inform the
district's strategic planning, said committee
chairman Mickey Fearn. "
Dan McGuire
Ericsson
dennis schapiro wrote:
> > If people want to see a school board that knows how to do it RIGHT,
> > read
> > this story on how the Seattle School Board chose their new
> > superintendent.
> > The killer is that in the end, they chose the interim
superintendent.
> > But
> > they sure surveyed the field, and I think maybe OUR board ought to
> > consider
> > some of the candidates that didn't make it in Seattle:
> > http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/
> > 2001750157_websupe29.html
>
> Here's another link:
>
> http://www.komotv.com/stories/27634.htm
>
> That article (about a week after the link Mr. Mork noted) describes
> how the the third of four finalists pulled out of Seattle
> superintendent search, in all probability because of the process. All
> four finalists were publicly flailed by a citzens advisory group.
>
> Perhaps $50 to $80k spent on a search with no result other than a
> reputation that will make it hard to get others to apply if the search
> is reopened. (New Superintendent Raj Manhas got only a short-term
> contract, as I understand it, and was never part of a public search
> process.)
>
> Manhas, by the way, is a non-educator (a former banker, I believe).
>
> There is obviously lots of room to debate about where on the continuum
> from "elected representatives deciding independently" to a "community
> plebiscite" the superintendent decision should fall. I expect we'll
> have that debate in coming weeks.
>
> Seattle may come out fine, but the process doesn't look like a perfect
> model to me.
>
> Dennis Schapiro
> Minneapolis Board of Education
> Linden Hills/Hawthorne
>
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