"Weast was recruited by the Illinois-based search firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates after the school board's first pick, Elfreda Massie, a deputy superintendent in the Baltimore County school system, withdrew in the wake of disclosures of her personal bankruptcy filings.
Weast, who earns a salary of more than $170,000 a year compared with the $155,000 salary of outgoing Superintendent Paul Vance, was a finalist for the top school job in Dallas earlier this year. That job pays $300,000.
Montgomery school board members have been criticized by local educators and community members for keeping them out of the selection process and for keeping secret the identities of Weast and another finalist, a woman.
"Whoever is appointed is not going to have any public legitimacy," said County Council member Michael L. Subin (D-At Large), who chairs the Education Committee. "This was the wrong way to do it.""
It was Hazard, Young, Attea & Assoc. who recommended Elfreda Massey to MCPS for the Superintendent job.
She was their #1 choice for us. It wasn't until after she had been offered the job, and accepted that the BOE learned of her two personal bankruptcies that the BOE pulled back its job offer and HYA scrambled to go find another pick. That was how we got Weast.
Question - Has HYA learned how to do a simple credit check before it recommends someone to handle our $2.2 billion budget?
Remember this from the Washington Post?
ReplyDelete"Weast was recruited by the Illinois-based search firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates after the school board's first pick, Elfreda Massie, a deputy superintendent in the Baltimore County school system, withdrew in the wake of disclosures of her personal bankruptcy filings.
Weast, who earns a salary of more than $170,000 a year compared with the $155,000 salary of outgoing Superintendent Paul Vance, was a finalist for the top school job in Dallas earlier this year. That job pays $300,000.
Montgomery school board members have been criticized by local educators and community members for keeping them out of the selection process and for keeping secret the identities of Weast and another finalist, a woman.
"Whoever is appointed is not going to have any public legitimacy," said County Council member Michael L. Subin (D-At Large), who chairs the Education Committee. "This was the wrong way to do it.""
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/june99/super29.htm
It was Hazard, Young, Attea & Assoc. who recommended Elfreda Massey to MCPS for the Superintendent job.
ReplyDeleteShe was their #1 choice for us. It wasn't until after she had been offered the job, and accepted that the BOE learned of her two personal bankruptcies that the BOE pulled back its job offer and HYA scrambled to go find another pick. That was how we got Weast.
Question - Has HYA learned how to do a simple credit check before it recommends someone to handle our $2.2 billion budget?