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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weird how quickly they hired her and she sounds shady too.  [/quote]

I'm sure her name was on a short list as soon as all the JB smoke started appearing and the BOE was thinking about an exit strategy from McKnight.  But yes very strange interim hire so quickly from outside the district. She was basically fired from her post in NC this summer and had ethics questioned from a bribe/kickback situation in 2019.  Does the BOE not have the internet?[/quote]

I think the BOE either:

1. Didn't dig deep cause they can't or don't want to because the candidate pool is not deep

2. Worry about giving a victory to moderate-rightwing voices that say they're doing a bad job with stewarding the district, so they hired someone who's like McKnight, but isn't her

Either is fine. My only issue with the second rationale is that makes sense if you pick someone who has McKnight's profile (black, female, equity focused) but doesn't have McKnight's baggage (fired by school board, questions about transparency/accountability). But Felder doesn't pass that threshold, so why hire her with all of those clouds hanging over her?[/quote]

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