You may have noticed, here or there, that our District Administrator will leave her post at the end of this school year, on June 30th, 2009. It was widely circulated over the weekend, and I alluded to it on my Monday morning Daily Bread post.
(A school board meeting about contractual matters involving unrepresented parties – if dozens hadn’t already chatted about it in this chatty town — the meeting notice was indication.)
Nothing about the story is surprising – an administrator who seeks several positions elsewhere, as was true last spring – has likely already inclined toward departure. Extended tenure was improbable. I thought the account of those interviews more interesting than any news since, because I believed that they told the tale.
You can guess that I’m not inclined to offer an over-sized photograph of Mrs. Steinhaus, as hagiography by camera’s just not my taste.
I wrote recently that there were three things worth exploring about our school district, from a post entitled, Schools Run as Markets –
(1) Are we performing better for what we spend and commit, across many years?
(2) How can markets or market-like free choices improve education?
(3) How can markets or market-like free choices improve education in our small school district?
I would add two more questions to these three:
(4) What is the general financial health of the district?
(5) Are we in compliance with state and federal laws for the disadvantaged?
No farewell, no matter how crafted or attended, will forestall these questions, or alter the answer to them.
In the meantime, you may enjoy on our new district logo, neither red nor featuring a whippet, but likely to endure nonetheless.