Why You Should Care Mr. Crabill has found quite the acolyte in Director Chandra Hampson. In the course of discussions over SOFG, she says his name over and over, "A.J .says we...." Now that's not too surprising given the direction the district is heading and that it is Mr. Crabill's work with the Council of Great City Schools is how we got here. But it appears that Mr. Crabill is working very closely with Hampson and we know she wields some amount of power over the majority of the Board. Mr. Crabill is going to continue to work with the Board as SOFG is instituted in SPS. In fact, his role may become more public as it did at one SPS Board meeting in the spring where he was on the phone during the meeting and suggested the Board stop the meeting to "self-reflect." I also noticed that in a district in South Carolina, when things weren't going to plan, he blamed the Board for not following SOFG to the letter. Look for that to happen here if Board members w
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http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20120428/NEWS/304280013/Salem-Keizer-School-District-leader-Sandy-Husk-up-two-jobs
No new news, but very tight-lipped about the second position.
-the suspense is killin' me
SPS should sell circus tickets to raise revenue for schools.
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I have no idea whether that's a message that resonates with folks like Sherry, Kay, Michael, or Harrium, but it seems to me to be a no-brainer unless you are so ideologically blinkered (or vulnerable to pressure from the ideologically blinkered) that you cannot see your way to a choice that is truly in best interests of the entire SPS community.
And if it turns out that Husk has dropped out, maybe it's the conclusion that Husk herself came to. Perhaps Husk spoke with Enfield, a kindred spirit, and came to see, as Enfield apparently did, that the match here wasn't good for her. There are plenty of districts that would embrace her m.o. Why pick one where there is so much resistance to it? The job is hard enough.
Just speculation, or is it rather wishful thinking. We'll see.
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2012/04/seattle-superintendent-finalist-steven-w-enoch-drops-out/
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The board has not been diligent for special education in this search.
Dismayed parent
-no dawn in sight
I realize how this "conspiracy theory" this sounds, but the situation is so dreadful and Husk looks so much like a total MGJ repeat that I don't have words to express my disappointment right now.
Either way, this situation got ugly very quickly.