BOE To Announce New Superintendent Recommendation

The BOE met tonight and received a report from the consultants with the recommended new superintendent candidate. At this time, the other applicant candidates have not been notified yet of the recommendation, so the name of the recommended candidate has not been released. According to Vice Chair Jack Chiaramonte, the next steps in the process to hiring a new superintendent will involve the candidate meeting with school officials and making site visits which are tentatively scheduled for Monday and Tuesday of next week.

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  • here we go….

    Anyone else have a qeasy stomach? Gotta ask what kinda person would take on this challenge? How many millions has to be cut from the budget? This person ready to do battle or have some magical charm to intice the unions to negotiate – further? One thing is for sure, its either a hit or a miss, no in between. We either get somone nobody else wants or we get a firecraker that will shake it up. Sue, Steve, we are counting on you. Do it, to it!! Bruce get on that batters deck, the team needs you, the students need you.
    Cmon, lets do this people. Lets get it right. The choice of the superintendent is critical. Pay attention everyone.

  • John

    Let’s hope it is not another retread from out of district.

  • Kurm Udgeon

    It’s not the person coming in that scares me. It’s the folks picking that person that make my heart race and pressure go up. It would be hard to have faith in anyone that this board, of which some can’t even speak in complete sentences or have any lucid thoughts, will be choosing. It would have made more sense to have this person chosen by an outside concern, with no political axe to grind, then these clowns who haven’t gotten it right for most of the last three decades.
    Whoever it is, they will be managing over 60% of our tax dollars, and the results to date are bleak. Prayer may be the only answer.

  • Transparency

    Did the Norwalk community get to review the list of candidates like Newton, MA? Newton made the final 3 public.

    http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/education/x196135547/Finalists-named-for-Newton-superintendent-of-schools

    So did Milwaukee-

    http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/79697927.html

  • No Excuses

    Yep, even Starr in Stamford was outed for trying to abandond ship quietly. How did he side step that anyway? The other poster is correct, the selection of the school superintendent is cruetial and really the crux of a recovery of the slowly expiring patient, our town.

  • Kurm Udgeon

    When is the last time anything in this town was open and aboveboard. There are nothing but backroom deals from both sides of the politicians, who seem to speak out of both sides of their mouths. This new person will be introduced as a fait accomplis and we will have nothing to say about it at all. I cringe when I think about this BOE making this decision in a vacum. No matter who we elect, when you have a choice of bad or worse, it’s hard to have faith in this system.

  • NorwalkParents

    Here are a few points to ponder, Mr./Mrs. Udgeon:
    1. The old BOE established the rules– they decided to not have parents on any screening panels, they ruled against letting teachers and other stakeholders interview the candidates, and they delayed the process for as long as possible.
    2. If there is a true consensus candidate, I, for one, will have some faith that the newer folks on the board (ESPECIALLY THE 2 WHO DON’T TAKE ANY GUFF) did what they had to do to make sure that a good candidate was chosen.
    3. Even those of who think that the whole process stinks because of how the old folks kept everything secret have to appreciate that Haynie, Colorossi and Halsey can’t talk publicly about the arguments that might be happening when they are in executive session.
    4. Norwalk is a great challenge for someone looking to become a superintendent– I just hope we finally get someone who remembers what it’s like to be a teacher and who knows enough about HR to finally get some competence in that part of the third floor.
    5. I think that the BOE made a statement when they went outside for the second interim (the old board gave us 6 wasted months with Papaload, the new team gave us a guy who actually visits the schools and works on improving communication). I think that they’ll do the same with the permanent supt. Of course, if they pick a third-floor insider, then I too will lose faith in them.

  • Kurm Udgeon

    Well now Norwalk Parents, the deed is done and she comes to us from Maryland and points south. Once again the BOE in it’s secretive and closed door way has made a choice. I thought that the 5 “parents” who were elected were going to make changes. They are half of the majority group in power, the other half being retreads or some might say flat tires. The others on this board couldn’t find their asses with both hands. Now we are supposed to be comfortable with their choice?
    The only way to deal with these mental cripples, racists and mouth breathers (those on the boe will know which category they fall into), is to sweep them all out and start over. However, politics will rear it’s ugly head and give us more of the same. It’s time for a change in Norwalk, and for those of us who care how these schools are run to get more involved. But, the morons who run the republicrats and democans need to get booted out on their collective arses.

  • CT Taxpayer

    I can’t wait for the insiders, including supporters of another candidate, to begin posting negative comments, usually unsubstantiated and sometimes irrelevant, about the finalist. Her being a candidate in Newton is hardly unusual because most people looking for advancement apply for more than one job.

    I had been so concerned about a couple of people who were rumored to be in the running for this job, and I’m relieved that I’m not seeing either name in the press release.

  • Apathetic Voter

    Are they going to be paying her the same $150 thousand they gave Corda? I certainly hope not. Our kids could have benefited from that money way more than Corda needed it.

  • Ripped Off

    How about the plethora of highly-paid do-nothing administrators on the third floor who relish exsanguinating the Norwalk Taxpayer ???

  • CT Taxpayer

    Apathetic Voter – Sal Corda’s salary was over $200,000. And then there were the perks, including a lavish health benefits plan for him and his family, a plan that will continue for the rest of his life.

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  • Scorpion

    You have to express more your opinion to attract more readers, because just a video or plain text without any personal approach is not that valuable. But it is just form my point of view