....but never received an answer.
1. The hiring process for Ms. Brown was, if you believe what you read on the email listserv for the New School parents, badly flawed. Parents object to not having a chance to scrutinize the candidates' qualifications, and many of us feel the process should be much more transparent, especially in light of the fact that APS's current superintendent believes herself to be a reformer. How does this dismayingly opaque selection process, which, among other conditions, requires all members of the so-called Community Panel to take a vow of secrecy, serve the parent stakeholders at this new school?
2. What possible hardship could be suffered by, say, the three finalists for an APS principal's job, were they to be named publicly and their records made available for public scrutiny? And would any such hardship outweigh the right of the parents to scrutinize the finalists before a winner was named?
3. Do you agree with the premise that when critical hiring decisions are made in a secretive way within a highly political structure, public unease with the outcome is almost inevitable? And will you, as a reform-minded principal, pledge to err on the side of transparency and not opacity when it comes to making critical personnel decisions in the future? Will you commit to making public the CVs of all "finalists" for any public school position before a decision is made to choose one of them? Or, failing that, will you at least allow the members of any Community Panel to discuss the relative merits of any finalists with their constituent parent groups before a hiring decision is made?
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