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Anonymous wrote:Do groups other than the NAACP expect to get a seat at the table, or just them?

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)

So then the NAACP was one of many groups and individuals that was privy to the same information and had the same access?

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 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do groups other than the NAACP expect to get a seat at the table, or just them?

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)

So then the NAACP was one of many groups and individuals that was privy to the same information and had the same access?

Anonymous wrote: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???????????????????????????????????

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Anonymous wrote:I fear for Dr. Reid when she comes to fullybrealize that she’s not working in a small, generally progressive, affluent Seattle suburban district any longer. Fairfax may not be Loudoun, but it is very divided politically and the current School Board (preening, narcissistic, and more concerned with looking good than doing right) is a primary driver of the wedge.

Why did the NAACP object to Ms Reid?

Here is the NAACP's summary of concerns about Dr. Reid. Essentially, she lacks experience with a school system with the comparable size, diversity, and compexity of FCPS.

The issue we all agree on is that FCPS needs a superintendent who has commensurate experience in leading organizations of this size, diversity, and complexity, and that the
Superintendent of Northshore School District isn’t the right fit.

https://files.constantcontact.com/5c44296b501/b0a6aecf-6883-4f75-9d56-115c8c9a900d.pdf

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 wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I fear for Dr. Reid when she comes to fullybrealize that she’s not working in a small, generally progressive, affluent Seattle suburban district any longer. Fairfax may not be Loudoun, but it is very divided politically and the current School Board (preening, narcissistic, and more concerned with looking good than doing right) is a primary driver of the wedge.

Why did the NAACP object to Ms Reid?

Here is the NAACP's summary of concerns about Dr. Reid. Essentially, she lacks experience with a school system with the comparable size, diversity, and compexity of FCPS.

The issue we all agree on is that FCPS needs a superintendent who has commensurate experience in leading organizations of this size, diversity, and complexity, and that the
Superintendent of Northshore School District isn’t the right fit.

https://files.constantcontact.com/5c44296b501/b0a6aecf-6883-4f75-9d56-115c8c9a900d.pdf

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 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do groups other than the NAACP expect to get a seat at the table, or just them?

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 wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I fear for Dr. Reid when she comes to fullybrealize that she’s not working in a small, generally progressive, affluent Seattle suburban district any longer. Fairfax may not be Loudoun, but it is very divided politically and the current School Board (preening, narcissistic, and more concerned with looking good than doing right) is a primary driver of the wedge.

Why did the NAACP object to Ms Reid?

Here is the NAACP's summary of concerns about Dr. Reid. Essentially, she lacks experience with a school system with the comparable size, diversity, and compexity of FCPS.

The issue we all agree on is that FCPS needs a superintendent who has commensurate experience in leading organizations of this size, diversity, and complexity, and that the
Superintendent of Northshore School District isn’t the right fit.

https://files.constantcontact.com/5c44296b501/b0a6aecf-6883-4f75-9d56-115c8c9a900d.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:I fear for Dr. Reid when she comes to fullybrealize that she’s not working in a small, generally progressive, affluent Seattle suburban district any longer. Fairfax may not be Loudoun, but it is very divided politically and the current School Board (preening, narcissistic, and more concerned with looking good than doing right) is a primary driver of the wedge.

Why did the NAACP object to Ms Reid?

Here is the NAACP's summary of concerns about Dr. Reid. Essentially, she lacks experience with a school system with the comparable size, diversity, and compexity of FCPS.

The issue we all agree on is that FCPS needs a superintendent who has commensurate experience in leading organizations of this size, diversity, and complexity, and that the
Superintendent of Northshore School District isn’t the right fit.

https://files.constantcontact.com/5c44296b501/b0a6aecf-6883-4f75-9d56-115c8c9a900d.pdf

I don't recall the NAACP raising a similar concern in 2017 when FCPS proposed to elevate Scott Brabrand, then the superintendent of a school system with fewer than 9000 students, to the FCPS Superintendent's position. One can only wonder what changed between 2017 and 2022. Could it possibly be the race of the final candidates this year?

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."

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I fear for Dr. Reid when she comes to fullybrealize that she’s not working in a small, generally progressive, affluent Seattle suburban district any longer. Fairfax may not be Loudoun, but it is very divided politically and the current School Board (preening, narcissistic, and more concerned with looking good than doing right) is a primary driver of the wedge.

Why did the NAACP object to Ms Reid?

Here is the NAACP's summary of concerns about Dr. Reid. Essentially, she lacks experience with a school system with the comparable size, diversity, and compexity of FCPS.

The issue we all agree on is that FCPS needs a superintendent who has commensurate experience in leading organizations of this size, diversity, and complexity, and that the
Superintendent of Northshore School District isn’t the right fit.

https://files.constantcontact.com/5c44296b501/b0a6aecf-6883-4f75-9d56-115c8c9a900d.pdf

I don't recall the NAACP raising a similar concern in 2017 when FCPS proposed to elevate Scott Brabrand, then the superintendent of a school system with fewer than 9000 students, to the FCPS Superintendent's position. One can only wonder what changed between 2017 and 2022. Could it possibly be the race of the final candidates this year?

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."

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 wrote:Do groups other than the NAACP expect to get a seat at the table, or just them?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I fear for Dr. Reid when she comes to fullybrealize that she’s not working in a small, generally progressive, affluent Seattle suburban district any longer. Fairfax may not be Loudoun, but it is very divided politically and the current School Board (preening, narcissistic, and more concerned with looking good than doing right) is a primary driver of the wedge.

Why did the NAACP object to Ms Reid?

Here is the NAACP's summary of concerns about Dr. Reid. Essentially, she lacks experience with a school system with the comparable size, diversity, and compexity of FCPS.

The issue we all agree on is that FCPS needs a superintendent who has commensurate experience in leading organizations of this size, diversity, and complexity, and that the
Superintendent of Northshore School District isn’t the right fit.

https://files.constantcontact.com/5c44296b501/b0a6aecf-6883-4f75-9d56-115c8c9a900d.pdf

I don't recall the NAACP raising a similar concern in 2017 when FCPS proposed to elevate Scott Brabrand, then the superintendent of a school system with fewer than 9000 students, to the FCPS Superintendent's position. One can only wonder what changed between 2017 and 2022. Could it possibly be the race of the final candidates this year?

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 wrote:She looks like a teacher. Not polished at all.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I fear for Dr. Reid when she comes to fullybrealize that she’s not working in a small, generally progressive, affluent Seattle suburban district any longer. Fairfax may not be Loudoun, but it is very divided politically and the current School Board (preening, narcissistic, and more concerned with looking good than doing right) is a primary driver of the wedge.

Why did the NAACP object to Ms Reid?

Here is the NAACP's summary of concerns about Dr. Reid. Essentially, she lacks experience with a school system with the comparable size, diversity, and compexity of FCPS.

The issue we all agree on is that FCPS needs a superintendent who has commensurate experience in leading organizations of this size, diversity, and complexity, and that the
Superintendent of Northshore School District isn’t the right fit.

https://files.constantcontact.com/5c44296b501/b0a6aecf-6883-4f75-9d56-115c8c9a900d.pdf

I don't recall the NAACP raising a similar concern in 2017 when FCPS proposed to elevate Scott Brabrand, then the superintendent of a school system with fewer than 9000 students, to the FCPS Superintendent's position. One can only wonder what changed between 2017 and 2022. Could it possibly be the race of the final candidates this year?