Kira Orange-Jones Is Chairing La. BESE’s Superintendent Search
On January 17, 2020, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) president, Sandy Holloway, appointed the four BESE members who will form the work group that is supposed to offer full BESE names of candidates for Louisiana’s next state superintendent. (Click here for the press release.)
This superintendent work group will both screen and nominate, and it will also devise a process for selection, which it is to present to BESE at the board’s meeting on January 28-29, 2020.
Teach for America (TFA) executive director, Kira Orange-Jones, is the work group chair.
Other members include James Garvey, Ronnie Morris, and Doris Voitier.
Garvey, a lawyer, is an avid White supporter. Morris, an operations manager for Exxon, was recently elected, and Voitier, St. Bernard Parish superintendent, is in her second term as one of Governor Edwards’ three BESE appointees.
So, basically, from the time of their formal appointment, these four individuals have ten days to screen and select candidates and to develop a process for selecting the next superintendent, which requires a supermajority vote from BESE (8 out of 11 members).
In BESE’s January 16, 2020, special meeting, Garvey appeared to favor retaining a search firm for locating candidates.
In his 2015 criticism of John White, Governor Edwards noted that White lack credentials “to even be a middle school principal” and said that Louisiana has qualified candidates for superintendent and that there was “no need to go CONTINUE READING: Kira Orange-Jones Is Chairing La. BESE’s Superintendent Search | deutsch29
