{"id":5010,"date":"2009-07-02T06:44:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T11:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2009-07-02T06:45:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T11:45:23","slug":"a-revolting-development-in-st-paul-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5010","title":{"rendered":"The Rubber Stamp Operators’ License"},"content":{"rendered":"

So while the Saint Paul School Board undertakes the usual hideously expensive national search to find another $200K\/year plus huge benefits superintendent who will basically enforce the status quo only more expensively, they’ve appointed an interim Superintendent. \u00a0 Suzanne Kelly is a woman with plenty of experience – but who doesn’t have a “license” from the Minnesota Association of School Administrators.<\/p>\n

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Speed Gibson – one of the two best edbloggers in Minnesota today – writes at True North<\/a> and of course at Speed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Well, she’s not a member of the Lodge. Kelly has relevant experience in three Districts, including St. Paul, where she has the full faith of the Board. She is not seeking the permanent position. But she lacks credentials, don’t you know?<\/em>“She is not licensed, so there would be a question of the legality of any legal document she signed,” said Judith Lamp, executive director of the School Administrators Board.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you recall, that was one of John Fitzgerald’s big squawks in his hit piece on charter schools<\/a>; their administrators weren’t licensed through the state.<\/p>\n

And – shut my mouth! – here the second biggest district in the state has gone and ignored the exact same credential<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Speed:<\/p>\n

“I can’t recall one [case] where the variance was denied and they continued on,” Lamp added. “In my two and a half years here I do not know a district that has gone without a superintendent.”<\/p>\n

And that’s the danger, isn’t it? We might find that all those high-falutin’ licensing requirements aren’t quite as necessary or valuable after all. What a revoltin’ development that would be!<\/p>\n

The St. Paul Board has more faith in Kelly’s demonstrated experience, dare I say results than in some pedigreed stranger’s unknown potential. The State agencies have ruled, but St. Paul is standing firm behind their choice. Bravo!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Saint Paul Public Schools don’t make many good decisions; the ones that happen must be treasured and protected.<\/p>\n

But what does <\/em>this say about Fitzgerald’s beef against charters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So while the Saint Paul School Board undertakes the usual hideously expensive national search to find another $200K\/year plus huge benefits superintendent who will basically enforce the status quo only more expensively, they’ve appointed an interim Superintendent. \u00a0 Suzanne Kelly is a woman with plenty of experience – but who doesn’t have a “license” from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}