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Handicapping the four superintendent candidates

Edushyster takes a look at the four men in the running to take over at BPS. Her description of Tommy Chang might give pause to anybody who remembers the scheduling mess at Madison Park High School way back in September.

The Globe, meanwhile, wonders what the rush is to pick a new superintendent, given that we've been without a permanent one for so long:

[H]ow can School Committee members reasonably sort through their own impressions, let alone the community feedback they solicited, in a four-day period?

Instead, the thorough candidate interviews should be followed by an equally ambitious period of discussion and due diligence.

The School Committee is scheduled to make its recommendation to Mayor Walsh on Tuesday.

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and not as in we are short on the budget millions, but as in "we had millions of dollars but we don't know where it went."

So do any of these candidates have financial management experience?

Do any have the political experience to fire the district administrators who have failed repeatedly, and stand up to the pressure from Linehan or Steve Lynch or Felix Arroyo or whatever sugar daddy is keeping these people in place?

Will any of them have the strength to find a way to hang on to the great teachers the city develops and ditch the stinkers we can't get rid of?

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Schools losing money? This an outrage, can't they knit those socks any faster? I demand profitable public schools in Boston!

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Misappropriation of funds is a huge issue, if you cant comprehend the prior comment that's on you. O and by the way, the money they're spending is from hard working taxpayers and well as one i hope they're maximizing every cent.

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I mean just LOST it. Like we spent it but we don't know what we spent it on.

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...that one belongs to a Stephen King movie, Adam.

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Aren't they hard in the tank for the BTU and very, very anti-reform? All you need to know is that which ever candidate gets the gig, charter schools will be to blame anyways for that source.

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Edushyster is hardly an unbiased source and is completely "in the tank" of the BTU, as is Parent Imperfect. How about posting information from some more knowledgeable sources that are less vitriolic and authentic?

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That you could point me to?

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I tend to stick to reputable news sources, and for local ed news it's WBUR, WGBH and the Globe, all of which have covered the search. People can easily confuse blog rantings with actual facts, and given the vast amounts of misinformation shared by Edushyster (a most offensive name, by the way) it's not a good link to send people to (unless you include the other end of the spectrum, which would be Jim Stergios from the Pioneer Institute). Edu seems to be under the false impression that Boston's mayor selects the superintendent, when in fact state law clearly details otherwise. A former educator who plays fast and loose with facts that don't appeal to her slanted view is not one to be followed.

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Then it shouldn't be hard to substantiate that assertion.

I'll settle for a handful of incorrect assertions of fact pivotal to her thesis.

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Hopefully the actual decision makers on this feel otherwise.

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You see, I've read the blog in the past and have decided it's not a worthwhile source of info generally about the BPS. As such, I'm not going to give them the click to read their latest hot take. Sort of like how I don't watch Fox News.

If you think they've made some cogent points on this topic, feel free to post them here. A stopped clock is right twice a day, etc...

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