Knox County School Board Chair Karen Carson announced tonight that she will not accept the Chair position again. The leadership is required to be voted on every September.
Will Vice Chair Lynne Fugate of the Fourth District step up to the Chair position? Will Second District Indya Kincannon another board member that rotates regularly in as Chair (just like Carson) get another turn with the gavel? Will the Board look to one of the three men (33% of the board) to lead the women?
The three men are Thomas Deakins (who served one year as Chair) Mike McMillan or Doug Harris? Selection of one of the three men for board leadership would send a message of diversity to the community about the public education of Knox County.
If not, those that leaves, Kim Sepesi, Pam Trainor, Gloria Deathridge as other options. Sepesi is active in Republican politics and has recently married the son of a prominent Republican family of Knox County. Trainor an active board member and one that does not typically vote in lock step with the group think. So, Sepesi and Trainor would be considered long shots. Although, they would be excellent leaders.
UPDATE: Before the Board adjourned this evening at the workshop. Vice Chair Lynne Fugate announced that she would be happy to serve as Chair since Carson is opting out.
Fugat = McIntyre. Might as well as make him chair. What a disaster in the making.
Fugate. My bad.
Fugate has been an utter disaster for the people in the 4th district and many from that district have gone to the Doug Harris camp for bringing greater accountability to the Knox County Public School System.
Fugate has been as big a bomb as Dan Murphy and she has become intoxicated with board speek, fallen in love with the buzz words and catch phrases for mediocre public education and discrimination against the overcrowded and family supported school in West Knoxville.
Fugate is a joke, just ask the Clayton people she used to work for.