The Guilford County Board of Education and outgoing Superintendent Terry Grier are all over today’s N&R.
For starters, metro columinist Jeri Rowe pens a letter in his own compassionate style:
Dear school board:
I wouldn’t want to be you.
What kind of leader do you want at the helm? Join the discussion at the Chalkboard blog.
You need to pick someone — man or woman — who can step into Guilford County’s top education job and run one of the largest school systems in North Carolina without getting burned on the local political griddle.
It won’t be easy. You all know that. But as you bring people in, here are a few tips to think about from parents, teachers, principals and education advocates. It’s something they want you to keep close as you search for the right person to replace Terry Grier before he goes coast-to-coast this summer to San Diego.
Call them the three Cs.
Creativity.
Community involvement.
And our kids aren’t corporations.
Meanwhile, an editorial urges county commissioners to leave the school bond alone, while Erik Huey writes in an op-ed that the search for a new superintendent should be delayed “until after school board elections this year because it’s unfair to launch a search when it’s possible a lame-duck board will oversee the process.”
This will all be very interesting to watch in the coming months.
