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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Should candidates names be made public?
Springfield board members and search officials are mulling a plan to keep superintendent and high school campus director candidates’ names confidential unless they are finalists for the positions, I reported in today’s News-Sun.
The board is using Illinois-based BWP & Associates, Inc., to conduct national searches to find a new superintendent and a new campus director for Springfield High School for the 2009-10 school year.
Proponents of confidential searches argue that it nets a better pool of candidates. Board members have said one of the reasons they went with a national search is for active recruiting of educators. Some of those candidates may be happily employed elsewhere and reluctant to put their names in at the risk of angering their current employers, Daniel Domenech of the American Association of School Administrators said.
“There’s no guarantee that they’re going to get the job, there’s a good chance their going to get in trouble in their communities,” he said.
Opponents argue that it puts secrecy around the hiring of a public official and keeps the public from knowing who the applicants are or what portion of the applicants were diverse candidates or local candidates, etc, said Charles Davis of the National Freedom of Information Coalition.
“And of course there’s the tiny little matter of the fact that these are public, tax-funded positions,” he said.
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High school principal resigns
Springfield High School Interim Campus Director JoEtta Cooper has “requested to be released from her contract” at the end of the month, said board President Donna Picklesimer.
The board will vote tonight to let Cooper leave her temporary post as the campus director of Springfield’s newly-merged high school.
The board meets at 6 p.m. tonight at the city forum.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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