HISD candidates still shrouded in secrecy
The list of candidates for HISD's top job has been narrowed to four, but those names are, shhh, still a secret:
Board President Karla Cisneros declined to reveal any information about the candidates the trustees are planning to interview through Saturday. She would say only that at least one of the candidates is from outside Texas. Cisneros also would not say how many of the candidates are men and how many are women.
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Interim Superintendent Abe Saavedra is among the four, according to trustee Larry Marshall. He and other trustees have repeatedly said Saavedra would receive strong consideration for the job, and most observers consider him the front-runner.
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Trustees are paying the association $30,000 to conduct the search, a relatively small sum compared with other urban districts that have recently spent twice that amount on superintendent searches. That, and the association's inexperience handling searches for school districts Houston's size, have raised questions about how serious trustees are about considering anyone for the job besides Saavedra.
Marshall said the association exceeded his expectations.
"The quality of the search has just been awesome," he said.
The association's consultants have insisted that the names of candidates be kept private. Making the names public, they said, would scare some candidates away from applying.
Mmm hmmm. Shining a light on government is only good in certain cases. Way to go Chronicle, for putting on that unrelenting pressure, so HISD parents can know who is in the running to affect their children's futures.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 11/04/04 10:40 AM | Print |
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