11th largest school system names candidates for Superintendent

The 11th largest public school system in the country is conducting a PUBLIC superintendent search.


11th largest.


That's a bigger public school system than world class-Baldridge Montgomery County Public Schools.


It's Palm Beach County in Florida.


What are these people thinking?


They are conducting a PUBLIC Superintendent search.  PUBLIC as in the NAMES (GASP!!) of the 25 candidates AND their RESUMES (HORRORS!) are posted on the school systems website for the PUBLIC to review.
  

Palm Beach County

Here, see for yourself by clicking this link. But cover your eyes. Here in world class-Baldridge land we aren't allowed to know this kind of super secret information.  Read more about this very public superintendent search in this Palm Beach Post News article.

In progressive Montgomery County, Maryland our Board of Education conducts superintendent searches the "right" way! They do it in secret, even if they have to violate the Maryland Open Meetings Act! What role does the public have in a public school anyway?

Our Board of Education is so intent on keeping public information secret that they have even hired an outside attorney to beg the Maryland Open Meetings Compliance Board to expunge the Opinion that found a violation in last year's superintendent search process.