CMS is demonstrating once again that it prefers bureaucrats over educators.
Recall that back in May CMS dramatically announced a hiring freeze, the better to try and mau-mau more cash out of the Mecklenburg County Commission. It worked a little. Then in early July CMS upped the PR ante by announcing that just could not possibly find the money to pay 26 assistant principals in the system.
Top Gorman deputy Mo Green explained that move thusly: “Education is a labor intensive business.” But a week later CMS quietly lifted the hiring freeze in order to give itself the leeway to move staff around as it pleased. The change was emailed to staff, but otherwise not shouted from the rooftops as the implementation of the freeze had been. Then Green more or less started to immediately interview for a new job. Which he recently landed in Greensboro.
So now Pete Gorman needs a new right-hand man. Any chance the $200K-plus position might stay open, seeing as CMS manifestly does not have the money to pay frontline staff? Not a chance.
Gorman says he’ll fill the slot in a matter of weeks.
