Orr on the role of the superintendent
After the education debate last week in Greensboro I pointed out that Republican candidate for governor Bob Orr had said that responsibility for education should rest with the governor.
And in my snarky way, I asked rhetorically what we should do with the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
It turns out, Orr has a not-so-rhetorical answer. There are too many players, he said, with some kind of responsibility and oversight for the state's educational system. That lets people hide from responsibility he said.
"There needs to be a consolidation of responsibility and the ultimate responsibility needs to rest with the governor," Orr said.
He also said that having the Council of State weighing in on things like land transaction is a "pretty inefficient" way to run a big government.
Click here to listen to his full answer on the education question. And then click here if you want to listen to us go off on the Council of State tangent. (There's a fade in and out on that second take because we got off on three minutes of chit-chat when a new person arrived at the table.)
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