FCPS NEW SUPERINTENDENT : Michelle Reid
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Anonymous
Nice try, but have a seat. Prior to becoming the superintendent of the Lynchburg City school system, Brabrand was an Assistant Superintendent, Principal, and Assistant Principal with FCPS. So he indeed had experience with a school system of "comparable size, diversity, and complexity of FCPS." |
Anonymous
| Do groups other than the NAACP expect to get a seat at the table, or just them? |
Anonymous
I actually find this to be more of a feature than a bug. |
Anonymous
You should take the seat, since you chose to quote from an NAACP synopsis that referred to "experience in leading [i]organizations of this size, diversity, and complexity," not experience in being a mid and lower-level cog in the FCPS machine. |
Anonymous
There was adequate opportunity for all interested persons and groups to provide input on the selection search process. How you elected to or not to participate is your choice. https://www.fcps.edu/school-board/superintendent-search[i] Community Engagement Opportunities, Timeline and other and Information December 13, 2021: School Board work session to discuss the process, timeline, and engagement opportunities. Watch video recording and view the consultant's presentation. December 14-16, 2021: GR Consulting, the search firm handling the superintendent search, held Staff Stakeholder Meetings with previously identified staff members representing all employee groups. January 4-18, 2022: GR Consulting is administering a survey to parents/guardians, students, staff, and community members. The survey will be available in multiple languages and will be a great opportunity for the FCPS community to weigh in on the most important qualities our next superintendent should possess. January 12, 13 and 18, 2022: The search firm held Community Stakeholder Meetings with parents, students, and community members and organizations. January 12, 13 and 18, 2022: The search firm hosted virtual Town Hall meetings for the community to attend. Watch the video recordings: January 12, 2022 noon Parents and Community Members January 12, 2022 7:30 p.m. Parents and Community Members (Spanish language) January 13, 2022 6:00 p.m. Parents and Community Members January 13, 2022 7:30 p.m. Parents and Community Members January 18, 2022 6:00 p.m. Parents and Community Members January 18, 2022 7:30 p.m. FCPS Employees (video link has been posted to the Employee Hub) January 31, 2022, 6 p.m.: The School Board heard the feedback from the town halls, stakeholder meetings and survey at their work session. To learn more about what our community and employees shared, watch the meeting, view the presentation and see the survey results. Ongoing: Accepting applications from candidates and reaching out to candidates who meet the division profile. See recruitment ad from GR Recruiting as posted below. March 4, 2022: Deadline for all application materials. March 5-16, 2022: Consultant paper screening, reference and background checking. March 17, 2022: School Board and search firm meet in closed session to discuss candidates to be interviewed. The School Board will also finalize 1st round School Board interview questions. (10:00 am - 3:00 pm) March 21-22, 2022: Interview selected candidates (1st round) (Time: TBD). March 28-29, 2022: Interview finalist candidate(s) (2nd round). (Time: TBD) |
Anonymous
The NAACP was not the only group or person to mention the concerns about Dr. Reid with regard to lack of experience in the cited areas. The NAACP letter does not mention the race of the final candidates, but instead focuses on a quantifiable comparison of their experience in their current school systems. You see NAACP letterhead and are blinded by the facts. If this comparative analysis were presented on any other letterhead, you undoubtedly would not have had an innately abhorrent reaction. |
Anonymous
I believe the NAACP was the only organization to out the two finalists before a final candidate had been made public; the first in this area to criticize Dr. Reid publicly; and the last to urge its proxies on the School Board (Anderson, Corbett Sanders, and Keys Gamarra) to assert Logan was more qualified even when it was clear that 9 members would be supporting Reid. Now they want to distance themselves from their failed effort to change the outcome, which was handled in a way that actually hurts Logan in her existing position in Omaha, and suggest that their concerns were widely held and based primarily on considerations of competency, not representation. Good luck with that, as people will remember who tried the hardest to blow up the process. |
Anonymous
The stupidity of the NAACP letter is clearer on display when Fairfax's economic and racial and economic diversity is closer to Northshore's than Omaha's in differential percentage. Northshore has a differential percentage of just 14 percent in economic disadvantaged compared to Fairfax versus 51 percent for Omaha. A differential of 12 versus 14 percent in white percentage, 5 versus 13 percent in Asian percentage, 8 versus 15 in black percentage. Finally if one is to compare ACT/SAT scores between the two in which the NACCP omitted it is quite clear which superintendent had the better track record. |
Anonymous
So then the NAACP was one of many groups and individuals that was privy to the same information and had the same access? |
Anonymous
Sujatha Hampton isn't very smart, but she tries to make up for it with emotion and invective. |
Anonymous
NACCP???? Comparing SAT scores of two systems is not the benchmark for selecting a superintendent. Any first-year data analyst knows that. |
Anonymous
| The FCPS Do Better and Open Schools and Norami Army and TJ Status Quo Nation stands in the mud and throws sludge 24:7-365......and you people come for the NAACP for summarizing general concerns. And whose lens are colored by race??????????????????????????????????? |
Anonymous
The Fairfax NAACP blundered big in connection with the Superintendent's appointment and you would be better off just letting it go than trying to suggest they handled it well because: * They were complicit in someone's violation of an NDA * They had bad intelligence and lobbied for Logan after she'd already withdrawn * They damaged Logan's relationship with her current employer, Omaha Public Schools * They cherry-picked statistics to suggest Logan's performance compared favorably with Reid's * They weaponized a bunch of teenagers to take up their cause so they could hide behind them when challenged * They did damage to their normally sycophantic relationship with the 12-0 Democratic School Board * They incentivized several School Board members to drag out Reid's confirmation even when it was already a fait accompli * Even after it was a done deal their spokespeople like Hampton continued to whine for days on social media |
Anonymous
Absolutely. And you know who had really good access to this timeline & information??? School board members, including Karen Keys Gamara. If she thought the process was rushed or didn’t include enough input from different groups, why did she wait until the night of the confirmation to say something??? |
Anonymous
Keys Gamarra needed to put on a show about how important was to listen to members of the community, which was ironic given the number of other times she’s paid no attention to what parents and community members had to say. If your “community” is the Fairfax NAACP and Pride Liberation, she is all ears; otherwise, forget about her taking any interest in your concerns. |