District VII Candidate Responses (and What a Mess the Board Has Created)
Update 2: Romanita Hairston is the only candidate still in the running without answers to the questionnaire. Not sure if she is the one who made the request for an extension but a spot-check seems to indicate she is the only one without answers.
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Update: Candidate Sandra Bosley withdrew her name from contention yesterday.
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SPS has put forth the answers to the Board questionnaire to the candidates who have thrown their hat into the ring to replace retiring director Betty Patu.
I have not gone thru these yet but wanted to get them up in advance of tonight's forum via the Southeast Education Coalition as well as the Board's pending forum on August 7th.
I have heard news that a candidate did not get their questionnaires in on time because he/she was out of the country and didn't have computer access but is now allowed to submit them late. Booo to that.
One, deadlines are deadlines. Sorry to whoever that is that is out of the country. Truly bad form on the part of the Board.
Two, that means the other candidates questionnaires were up and available for that candidate to read as he/she finished his/her own questionnaire.
Plus, it now makes all the other candidates have to rethink what they have probably spend hours and hours of time on.
Here's how this went down (partial from emails):
Wednesday, July 24th
Please find an important clarification below from Board President Harris regarding the candidate questionnaire. As a reminder, the questionnaire is due by email to the School Board Office, boardoffice@seattleschools.org
What Harris wanted candidates to know:
One of you has requested specific advice on the outstanding questionnaire as to how to address the "choose 3 remaining questions" from the community questions portion, when many of the community questions are compound.
We left those exact details open and thoughtful discussion was had at the work session as to some of these details, but we left it for you to choose how you wish to answer so we, as the Board and decision makers, and the community can see how you respond and determine what’s most important to you to convey to the Board members and communities. No word lengths, etc. We are trying in our efforts to be fair to create an even opportunity field by asking and vetting questions and doing this process as transparently as we can.
We’ll be meeting on August 5th @ 4:30 p.m. to discuss the questions to pose for the August 7th forum.
Tuesday, July 30th
Your questionnaire responses have now been posted to your individual candidate pages. You can access those pages here: https://www.seattleschools.
Tuesday, July 30th (later that day)
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Update: Candidate Sandra Bosley withdrew her name from contention yesterday.
end of update
SPS has put forth the answers to the Board questionnaire to the candidates who have thrown their hat into the ring to replace retiring director Betty Patu.
I have not gone thru these yet but wanted to get them up in advance of tonight's forum via the Southeast Education Coalition as well as the Board's pending forum on August 7th.
I have heard news that a candidate did not get their questionnaires in on time because he/she was out of the country and didn't have computer access but is now allowed to submit them late. Booo to that.
One, deadlines are deadlines. Sorry to whoever that is that is out of the country. Truly bad form on the part of the Board.
Two, that means the other candidates questionnaires were up and available for that candidate to read as he/she finished his/her own questionnaire.
Plus, it now makes all the other candidates have to rethink what they have probably spend hours and hours of time on.
Here's how this went down (partial from emails):
Wednesday, July 24th
Please find an important clarification below from Board President Harris regarding the candidate questionnaire. As a reminder, the questionnaire is due by email to the School Board Office, boardoffice@seattleschools.org
What Harris wanted candidates to know:
One of you has requested specific advice on the outstanding questionnaire as to how to address the "choose 3 remaining questions" from the community questions portion, when many of the community questions are compound.
We left those exact details open and thoughtful discussion was had at the work session as to some of these details, but we left it for you to choose how you wish to answer so we, as the Board and decision makers, and the community can see how you respond and determine what’s most important to you to convey to the Board members and communities. No word lengths, etc. We are trying in our efforts to be fair to create an even opportunity field by asking and vetting questions and doing this process as transparently as we can.
We’ll be meeting on August 5th @ 4:30 p.m. to discuss the questions to pose for the August 7th forum.
Tuesday, July 30th
Your questionnaire responses have now been posted to your individual candidate pages. You can access those pages here: https://www.seattleschools.
Tuesday, July 30th (later that day)
All candidates for the District VII Director
appointment are being given additional time to amend or supplement their
previously submitted questionnaires.
The deadline to provide any additions or to edit your questionnaire is tomorrow—Wednesday, July 31 at 9 a.m.
If you are resubmitting, please provide your new questionnaire as a
word document with tracked changes if you are able. Please note that
submissions that have been received to date have already posted, and we
will make any adjustments as we are able.
One candidate was traveling during the
questionnaire deadline period, and was unable to provide their
questionnaire responses previously. Board President Harris has decided
to provide all candidates the additional time to allow for complete
submissions.
Wednesday, July 31st
Thank you for your patience as we have worked to
ensure this appointment process is as fair and transparent as possible.
One candidate remains out of the country without timely access to a
computer, so the
deadline to provide any additions or to edit your questionnaire has been further extended by the Board President to
5 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, August 1. This is the final deadline extension.
If you are resubmitting, please provide your new
questionnaire as a word document with tracked changes if you are able.
Please note that submissions that were received by Monday morning have
already posted, and we will make any adjustments
as we are able.
Comments
It's just another "thing" about district 7 or is it seven. Cut-er loose
Harris's leadership is highly questionable.
--Blow horn
Cattle Driver
Harris is in charge as president so the buck stops with her.
When you have so many applicants then you don't change the process that everyone else followed in order to accommodate someone that's out on vacation. I smell Baltimore.
--Blow horn
SE Sea Parent
But yes, I don't get giving anyone special treatment.
Note to current Board - posting any responses before all were posted was a terrible idea. In the future, if you feel you need to offer extensions, hold onto all responses and post them all at once. Allowing candidates to read other's responses and then edit or draft their own is absurd for this type of exercise.
Impressed (w/ JvA, not the Bd)
no caps
Voter
no caps
Truth Truthiness
nc
Yikes
About time
also--where is the candidate traveling that they didn't have access to email? The process has been emailed to each candidate. Either they travel in some pretty unusual travel destinations or they didn't bother checking email or it's an excuse.
~Seattle Mom
About Time, I pointed out these points in her resume before as well.
About Time
Voter