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School board: Something needs to change in superintendent search
- 01-07-2010
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By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
Even though San Diego Unified is likely to look for a single chief -- not two, or four, or none as critics had feared -- its search for a new superintendent is bound to be unconventional. The school board has already waited more than four months to start the search. It hasn't even talked much about it. Its president has touted the relatively unusual strategy of an open search, which would allow parents, teachers and community members to vet a possible chief in public. That, in turn, could push less traditional candidates to the fore and move the district away from the polished career superintendents normally turned up by headhunters. Talk of blowing up the whole superintendent system seems to have fizzled. Even board member John de Beck, who initially floated the idea of having four leaders instead of one, has dropped the idea for now. (more...)
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