EDITORIAL: Your two cents on WISD superintendent
Here’s something worth celebrating: No one in the Waco Independent School District will be able to honestly claim that he or she wasn’t allowed to offer opinions regarding the next superintendent. Search consultants tapped by the Waco school board have farmed out across the district to hold public forums on the superintendent search. They’ve also been meeting separately with groups such as students, teachers and staff.
We have nothing but praise for the Waco board and the Texas Association of School Boards search services, employed to lead the search. Tribune-Herald staff writer Wendy Gragg, who has been attending many of the meetings and will have a story on the insights offered by the community this week, tells us there are no less than 11 public meetings.
A Tribune-Herald editorial board member sat in on a public meeting at the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday afternoon and can testify to the high quality of opinions offered. Among them: The next superintendent needs to be a good communicator, someone who sees urban districts like Waco’s in a positive prism rather than a negative one (a wise observation offered by chamber president Jim Vaughan) and can think long-term rather than focusing intently on the short-term fixes (suggested by former board member and local attorney Charles Olson, one of our city’s most thoughtful individuals when it comes to public education).
We deeply appreciate the integrity with which these forums are being conducted, including the TASB search staff’s effort to ensure special groups such as teachers are allowed to opine without, say, administrators being present. Yet the TASB also has sought to keep suggestions constructive, putting the search on solid ground.
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