School system may override charter's hiring picks
Frederick County Public Schools officials may force a new charter school to hire teachers of the county's choosing instead of the school's preferred candidates, according to the school's president.
Rather than let the Frederick Classical Charter School offer jobs to nine candidates who had passed a series of interviews and tests, FCPS' human resources department told the school to choose candidates who had not been interviewed, said school President Tom Neumark.
FCPS keeps a “to be placed” list of teachers who are returning from leave or were laid off because school enrollment declined, Neumark said. FCPS' HR staff will not allow Frederick Classical to offer jobs to external candidates until all 20 people on the “to be placed” list are assigned to a school.
When Frederick Classical staff asked to interview these teachers, they were told that names on the list were not allowed to be shared with any principal in the school system because of privacy, Neumark said.
County schools spokesman Michael Doerrer said the school system is following long-established hiring