Inslee Names Renton Superintendent as Chief of Staff
From the Times:
Gov.-elect Jay Inslee named Renton Schools Superintendent Mary Alice Heuschel as his chief of staff in a news conference in Seattle on Thursday morning.
Heuschel, one of three co-chairs of Inslee’s transition team, led Renton schools for seven years and last year was a finalist for national superintendent of the year. She also served as deputy superintendent of the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for six years.
I personally like Superintendent Heuschel and while I don't always agree with her, find her a thoughtful person. I think it's a good call but Renton's loss.
Gov.-elect Jay Inslee named Renton Schools Superintendent Mary Alice Heuschel as his chief of staff in a news conference in Seattle on Thursday morning.
Heuschel, one of three co-chairs of Inslee’s transition team, led Renton schools for seven years and last year was a finalist for national superintendent of the year. She also served as deputy superintendent of the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for six years.
I personally like Superintendent Heuschel and while I don't always agree with her, find her a thoughtful person. I think it's a good call but Renton's loss.
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TFA are just like our CTE teachers, no big deal
I've heard Inslee has also tapped Tacoma's mayor as part of his transition team -- she was featured in a Yes on 1240 TV ad.
It would certainly be bitterly ironic if the WEA put all its energy and resources into electing Inslee (at the expense of focusing on defeating 1240) only to have him fill his cabinet with corporate ed reformers.
What qualifies MAH? That she had a rubber-stamp school board? I remember a certain X-supt who really bungled things under the same conditions. MAH ignored the concerns of her teaching staff and clung to that career ladder, baby!
Dora
I have come to the conclusion that the teachers union is not the most politically savvy body. Maybe it's just teachers in general but they seem to unknowingly back into trouble every which way that they can and I am speaking nationally as well as locally.
CT
However, I also think the union sometimes needs to look beyond its doors and ask their membership what THEY think would work. The WEA could have made far better use of the teachers during the fight over 1240 and, for some unknown reason, chose not to.
--- hoping you all get a grip one of these days
It is the inferences that she is aligned with "corporate education reformers" and/or is a "climber" that set me off. I do not find these criticisms to be valid at all. And let's be honest, these descriptions are used on this site in a pejorative way. And while I agree with you that there have been some (though I disagree that there have been many) good things said about her, there have been more irresponsibly negative and presumptuous things said about her.
--- hoping you all get a grip one of these days
--- someone who knows
This is just another way for TFA to burrow like a tic in the PNW, and no one in a position of responsibility giving a hoot, doing their job, or following laws and regs.