School administrators lack basic qualifications
School Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green has just made two leadership changes: chief of staff and chief administrative officer.
The following requirements are from the school system’s job descriptions:
* For both chief of staff and chief administrative officer: “Experience as a Principal and Central Office Administrator required.”
* For principal: “Master’s degree in Education Administration, 3 to 5 years of experience as a classroom teacher. .... Must possess a teaching certificate from the State of North Carolina.”
Neither Nora Carr nor Eric Beacoats has ever been a principal. Even worse, the requirements to be a principal require teaching experience. Neither has been in a classroom as a teacher. In fact, Carr has no education credentials (English and communications). However, she has plenty of public relations background.
Now think about this. The positions were filled without posting. And the system was not even competent enough to make the job descriptions fit the already-selected applicants.
From the Independent Study Commissioned by GCS (2007), “Review of Human Resource Operations in the Guilford County Schools”: “Job descriptions, required for all positions, are seldom linked to job announcements and appear to be underutilized.”
As an old FDR ultra-liberal, I think I finally see the light: school vouchers.
David Colin
Greensboro
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