NCS is getting another grade of F

People involved in selection of this city’s school superintendent see it as a job for themselves and not for citizens. This is evident in today’s reports about the status of the search through the eyes of the Ohio School Boards Association.

In the Advocate’s report and the WCLT report, there was never a mention about any avenue for public input to the selection process.

Apparently it will all be decided by our “experts.” Even the tenor of the WCLT report hints of that. Check it: “OSBA search consultant Kathy LaSota talks about what she’s looking for. ‘Most importantly for Newark, ...’”

What I want to know is: Where was the NCS school board when Judge Hoover was publishing on-line the resumes of the school board candidates? Where were they when the Judge required these candidates to get up in front of the folks they wanted to serve and tell why they would do it well? Where were these folks when the Judge invited public comments which became part of his selection criteria?

What were they thinking - and where was Ms. LaSota - when the school board issued its “transparency” promises?

“Transparency” to them apparently is defined as a single and very late news release from the offices of OSBA.

NCS school board is about to get another in a long series of failing grades by a weary constituency.