The Transition Report prepared for Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance contains valuable recommendations for improving our school system.
At the October 9, 2012 meeting of the Baltimore County Board of Education, members received a briefing regarding the Transition Report prepared for Superintendent Dallas Dance. This detailed study contains a series of 42 short-term (2012 - 2013) and 40 long-term (2013 - 2015) recommendations with regard to a total of ten different focus areas. In reviewing this report, it becomes apparent that the members of the transition team conducted a thoughtful review of the strengths and areas in need of improvement within Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS). I wanted to highlight what I consider the "top four" recommendations this group put forward. "Establish an organization and culture where the primary work of the district takes place in …
Even after his departure as superintendent for Baltimore County Public Schools, Joe Hairston still manages to generate controversy.
Readers of Patch received news last week of another sad chapter in the history of Joe Hairton's tenure as the Baltimore County Public Schools superintendent. As in the past, this latest bombshell is indicative of an administrator who felt he was entitled to unilaterally make crucial decisions—without consultation with the Board of Education—and with little or no regard for the citizens he was supposed to serve. In early July 2011, Superintendent Hairston finalized new employment contracts with two top-level school employees: Chief Communications Officer Phyllis Reese and Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Donald Peccia. These contracts were negotiated during a period when there was broad speculation regarding Hairston's future …
Incoming Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance deserves the chance to prove himself and mend fences with the community for the failings of his predecessor.
As a parent of a student attending a Baltimore County public school, I was very interesting in seeing who would ultimately be selected to succeed outgoing Superintendent Joe Hairston. My deepest desire, which was certainly shared by most other stakeholders of the school system, was that he or she would be replaced by an individual who was open to new ideas, valued dialogue with others and listened to the opinions of citizens at-large. While the academic statistics of the Hairston era have been commendable, his record in the areas noted above could not have been worse. By most accounts, with the selection of Dr. Dallas Dance to become our new superintendent, effective July 1, 2012, we may very well have found the "anti-Hairston." Unlike …
Paul Amirault
3:46 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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