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Spotsylvania County's search for a superintendent ready to gear up Date published: 9/7/2010
By PAMELA GOULD As the 2010-11 school year begins today for most divisions in the Fredericksburg region, Spotsylvania County is looking ahead to 2011-12. That's when the region's second-biggest school division will be starting a new chapter with a new superintendent. Superintendent Jerry Hill retires at the end of this school year, and the Spotsylvania School Board is preparing to launch the public part of its search for his replacement later this month. In August, the board approved BWP and Associates of Libertyville, Ill., as its search consultant. BWP was chosen from five applicants, none of which is located in Virginia. Three are based in Illinois, one in Nebraska and one in Iowa. Board member Marty Wilder, who with board member Amanda Blalock is chairing the superintendent search committee, said he supported BWP because of "the breadth and depth of their experience." BWP's nine-member board of directors includes six former superintendents. The firm has helped school districts in 36 states find administrators, according to the company website. Wilder noted that Spotsylvania used members of the firm in a previous search. Stafford County and the city of Fredericksburg are also among 16 public school divisions in Virginia to have employed them. BWP and Associates was created when Harold Webb Associates, PNR Associates and The Bickert Group joined. Harold Webb Associates, founded in 1977, is the nation's first superintendent search firm and is the one Spotsylvania used before. SEARCH TO TRANSITION BWP's first task is to organize public input events to craft the list of characteristics Spotsylvania residents want in their next superintendent. Afterward, it will advertise the position--seeking someone with those characteristics. It will conduct background checks and provide the School Board with a slate of six to eight candidates for consideration. The board will then interview the top candidates; may visit where they currently work; and will decide whom to hire, with the goal of having the new person named in time to meet with Hill and outgoing senior staff. The consultant's contract includes a "search success" clause that covers the division if the next superintendent doesn't work out. If the superintendent quits or is fired within two years, BWP will conduct another search at its own expense.
Read more stories about Spotsylvania Date published: 9/7/2010
i found a new super at a thrift store.Its the robot from lost in space. it yells danger danger over and over will that work?
(Vote those out that are not onboard with the interests of the people. )
If we did that who would we jave left at the main office?
Take the $33,600, and pay a super for his actual performance and let's put some money back in the school programs? How about activity buses? for a family with at least two children in high school that are involved in at least two sports a year it will cost $400. Where is this money going, come on, we are not taking Greyhound across the county? I agree, let's not make the same mistake again! Vote those out that are not onboard with the interests of the people.
I think in my opinion its a huge stretch to think they would do anything for the people of spotsy,If it does not better them self's first,Even if its a low class school worker means nothing to them.
to think that this SB is going to set up a procedure that
allows itself to be cast in any other than a favorable light.
The only sure way for the public to truly make their feelings
and concerns heard is at election time. However, have you
ever noticed how all seems to be forgiven at election time
and the same "suspects" return time after time?
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