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Talk about on the downlow.  Talk about shady. Embedded in the School Board agenda for next Wednesday, Dec.3 - for Intro and Action via Sharon Peaslee and Ron English - is this: This action will authorize the Board President to negotiate a contract with Dr. Larry Nyland for the office of Superintendent. Selection of the chief executive officer of the District is a policy decision by the School Board. Per RCW 28A.330.100, the Board shall have the power to employ a superintendent of schools of the district.

An update if you were thinking of going to the COW meeting this afternoon which says it will be about the search firm for the selection of our next superintendent. There had been a notation on the agenda that it might not happen so I checked in with the ever-sunny Theresa Hale at the Board office. It seems that the Executive Session last night ran over three hours and, they didn't get finished.  (You may recall this was about a review of Superintendent Nyland which seems kind of soon given he just got here six months ago.) So the COW meeting won't happen until that Executive Session is finished.   Meaning, you could go down there, wait until the Executive Session is finished and hope that they then commence the COW meeting.  Or, you could go down and be disappointed if the Board takes longer, is exhausted and then postpones the COW meeting. I get all this except for one thing.  As it turns out, I am getting some very pronounced vibes - both from s...

I received a tweet on Monday from SPS, saying that Dr. Nyland was visiting with the City Council as part of their regular Monday morning briefing.  Here's the link .  It was worth listening to as I heard Dr. Nyland say, with some candor, various interesting things. Summary

Update : search firms and candidates - you're welcome. end of update. The Board had a meeting of the entire group (without Carr) to discuss how to look for a superintendent.  It was a lot of logistics talk about finding the right search firm. (I will try to get a electronic copy of the document they were working off of from Erin Bennett.) They will be putting out an RFP around October 3rd and will decide on a firm by early December.  There was no firm date for the applications to go out for superintendent.