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Board to pay $27,000 to help find new school chief
RYAN BAGWELL, Staff Writer
The county Board of Education will pay a Maryland nonprofit organization $27,000 to guide the search for a new superintendent.
In an executive session leading up to last night's school board meeting, board members settled on hiring the Maryland Association of Boards of Education to find Superintendent Eric J. Smith's replacement.
The board plans to hold public forums in mid-November at four locations around the county to determine what kind of skills, qualities and experience they want in the next superintendent.They'll have specific meeting dates by sometime next week, board President Konrad Wayson said.
After the forums, there will be little public involvement until the spring while the search is conducted."Until you present the applicants in March, I don't know what else we can do out in the public," Mr. Wayson said.MABE, a nonprofit organization which all Maryland school boards voluntarily belong to, offers support services and lobbying efforts for its members.MABE executives said in September they'd have to start the process in October and November in order for the board to appoint a superintendent by July 1, the date which state law says superintendents must start.
The law also says superintendents must be given a four-year contract."We've got no choice but to have it done in time," Mr. Wayson said. "Board members have to make a priority to make the meetings and get this done, so we can have a superintendent in place July 1."
Debbie Ritchie, president of the county council of Parent-Teacher Associations, sharply criticized the board for dragging its feet on the search during a public comment period. A month had gone by since MABE's original presentation without any search plan implemented by the board."If you consider that presentation as your plan, your communication skills need to be improved," she said.
After the meeting, she still felt they didn't have a plan, and that might deprive the community of a voice in the superintendent choice, she said."I'm afraid that a lack of parent involvement in the process isn't going to be because parents aren't concerned, its because it happens quickly," she said.
Sam Georgiou, chairman of the countywide Citizens Advisory Committee, has also strongly criticized school board members for not having a plan."It's a start," he said. "But more details need to be forthcoming.
"The school board did not look at other search firms, Mr. Wayson said. They were running out of time, and MABE has a good reputation, he said."I got to meet them at orientation training, and I was very impressed," school board member Enrique Melendez said after the meeting.MABE will charge considerably less than the $70,000 school board members said the district spent to find Dr. Smith.
The board did not vote on the contract, Mr. Wayson said. There was a general consensus to hire MABE and no objection among board members, he said.
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/10_20-36/TOP
RYAN BAGWELL, Staff Writer
The county Board of Education will pay a Maryland nonprofit organization $27,000 to guide the search for a new superintendent.
In an executive session leading up to last night's school board meeting, board members settled on hiring the Maryland Association of Boards of Education to find Superintendent Eric J. Smith's replacement.
The board plans to hold public forums in mid-November at four locations around the county to determine what kind of skills, qualities and experience they want in the next superintendent.They'll have specific meeting dates by sometime next week, board President Konrad Wayson said.
After the forums, there will be little public involvement until the spring while the search is conducted."Until you present the applicants in March, I don't know what else we can do out in the public," Mr. Wayson said.MABE, a nonprofit organization which all Maryland school boards voluntarily belong to, offers support services and lobbying efforts for its members.MABE executives said in September they'd have to start the process in October and November in order for the board to appoint a superintendent by July 1, the date which state law says superintendents must start.
The law also says superintendents must be given a four-year contract."We've got no choice but to have it done in time," Mr. Wayson said. "Board members have to make a priority to make the meetings and get this done, so we can have a superintendent in place July 1."
Debbie Ritchie, president of the county council of Parent-Teacher Associations, sharply criticized the board for dragging its feet on the search during a public comment period. A month had gone by since MABE's original presentation without any search plan implemented by the board."If you consider that presentation as your plan, your communication skills need to be improved," she said.
After the meeting, she still felt they didn't have a plan, and that might deprive the community of a voice in the superintendent choice, she said."I'm afraid that a lack of parent involvement in the process isn't going to be because parents aren't concerned, its because it happens quickly," she said.
Sam Georgiou, chairman of the countywide Citizens Advisory Committee, has also strongly criticized school board members for not having a plan."It's a start," he said. "But more details need to be forthcoming.
"The school board did not look at other search firms, Mr. Wayson said. They were running out of time, and MABE has a good reputation, he said."I got to meet them at orientation training, and I was very impressed," school board member Enrique Melendez said after the meeting.MABE will charge considerably less than the $70,000 school board members said the district spent to find Dr. Smith.
The board did not vote on the contract, Mr. Wayson said. There was a general consensus to hire MABE and no objection among board members, he said.
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/10_20-36/TOP
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