This Sunday the Kentucky Board of Education will meet to determine who their final nominees for Commissioner of Education will be. The nominees are rumored to be three individuals (all Republican), two of whom are current state legislators.
As David Adams of the Bluegrass Policy Blog reports the Board of Education is poised to rush their choice through the selection process just disasterously as they did Barbara Erwin. The entire Commonwealth of Kentucky is sitting idly by allowing to happen. The press isn’t saying anything and most bloggers are silent. So it’s time to speak up, people.
Is it too much to ask that the state Commissioner of Education be qualified to hold their job? Is it too much to ask that nominees for the job have experience leading a troubled department of education toward success? Seems those being considered are only qualified in the sense that they’re legislators or players in a political party. And that’s just not good enough for Kentucky.
Wake up!
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1 Yellow Dog // Oct 25, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Remember, it’s been barely a decade since the Superintendant of Public Education was an elected official who, according to the Constitution, did not even have to have a high school diploma.
Be grateful they’re restricting the pool to people who know how to read.
2 David Adams // Oct 26, 2007 at 2:37 am
Barbara Erwin had a high school diploma, could read, survived a bogus $50,000 search firm vetting, and was a total disaster.
I’m not so ready to be grateful just yet.
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