What is with all the "small town boys" in the Independence School District?
Jeanne Carton - from Otterville (does anyone even know where that is?) - was hired to transition Nowlin from the Kansas City School District. So we take a rural high school principal and make her the principal at an urban, high poverty, middle school. How did that work out? Not well.
Dale Herl - from Burrton, Kansas. Just doesn't make sense.
Ron Albertus - from Jasper County, Illinois - is the new principal (beginning last year) at Korte Elementary. He comes with impressive credentials ala Herl - superintendent of an entire rural school district. In Albertus' case - the largest geographic district in the state of Illinois. (Seriously - was there no one qualified in Missouri?) His ENTIRE school district had about 2,000 students - 99% of which were white.
Now in his case - we'll bet that he will retire at the end of 2016 - after he gets his 5 years in the Missouri retirement system. That way he'll be able to double-dip and get his retirement from both Missouri and Illinois.
Linda Gray Smith - the former superintendent from Chillocothe. (What is with all these former supeintendents? We probably have to pay them more.) Here's a copy of her contract with Chillocothe. The scuttlebutt from the Internet is that she was asked to resign. See the Chillocothe Constitution-Tribune story. (WOW - they have a newspaper that actually reports on the District?) Who knows. But again - this was the best qualified person?
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