UPDATE: This from Knox News website (free registration required), this afternoon. Knox Superintendent has applied for Hamilton County School Superintendent position. The search is being handled by a private search firm, instead of the TSBA Tennessee School Boards Association search team.
This from the Saturday Knoxville News-Sentinel (free registration required), Knox County Superintendent of Schools is considering a position in Chattanooga, TN as the Hamilton County School System Superintendent.
The same school board that Charles Love of TN Waltz fame, was a member of. Love has plead Guilty, it is also the same school board that State Senator Ward Crutchfield of TN Waltz fame served as the legal counsel for.
Why would someone want to relocate from the third largest community in the State of Tennessee, to the fourth largest? A school system that is located only 1.5 hours away?
In the story by Erica Mellon, she reports that the Knox County Superintendent was offered and refused a position in Virginia in April 2005. How much time does it take away from the day to day operation of the school district for a superintendent to apply and interview and interview again, make site visits and all the trappings of a job search? I do not know the answer to the question, it is just a thought that has recently entered my mind.
This from Sandra Clark at the Halls Shopper News, today. I am assuming some of this is tongue and cheek sarcasm toward Mayor Ragsdale.
Ragsdale for super
Dr. Charles Lindsey has interviewed elsewhere and may be hired in Chattanooga, creating a vacancy for the top job in Knox County Schools.
It doesn’t much matter whom the school board picks, since Roy Mullins runs the system now as deputy superintendent.
Therefore, let’s save some money by hiring Dr. Mike Ragsdale for the dual roles of county mayor and superintendent.
Ragsdale knows where to build, when to deploy custodians and how much to pay teachers. He’s an expert on health insurance and teaching reading. He sure knows how to squeeze the school budget till it squeals.
Ahhh. Put Rags in charge and watch those test scores soar.
