Jessica Baghian and Paul Vallas Among 7 Candidates for La. State Superintendent
On March 19, 2020, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) superintendent search work group, headed by Kira Orange-Jones, petitioned BESE to narrow the search for Louisiana’s next state education superintendent to the following seven candidates:
- Jessica Baghian
- Cade Brumley
- Debbra Lindo
- Lonnie Luce
- Heather Poole
- Joe Siedlecki
- Paul Vallas
In the course of researching the seven individuals remaining in Louisiana’s superintendent search, I found this March 2020 board doc of resumes for 20 applicants.
I had already written most of the post based on other sources, which is better because I have information here that would not make it past resume gloss. Of course, feel free to also read candidate resumes from BESE’s board docs and compare to info in this post.
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Jessica Baghian
I previously wrote about Jessica Baghian‘s wanting to be superintendent as no surprise since she is curently an assistant superintendent. What may surprise many is that she exited the classroom with only two years of teaching experience and zero experience as a school-level adminstrator. In true ed-reform fashion, CONTINUE READING: Jessica Baghian and Paul Vallas Among 7 Candidates for La. State Superintendent | deutsch29