re: It appears EBR school superintendent's days are numbered

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Taylor needs to go, but what are the chances a competent replacement gets seated in the job?

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Depends on the balance of power within the school board, IMHO.


If the current situation holds, we'll get a repeat of the clusterfrick from a few years back where the current teachers and administrators try to push for an insider to take control while the people who want the schools to get better try to push for an external candidate.

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Taylor needs to go, but what are the chances a competent replacement gets seated in the job? Either way, Taylor should never be employed as a super again.

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All you have to do is take a look 70 miles downriver in regards to the Orleans Parish School Board, who has had an interim super for two years now, mainly due to a lack of decent candidates. They have a lack of decent candidates because the school board id a cluster of unprecedented magnitude.

No decent super candidate is going to want anything to do with this posistion. I would argue that anyone within EBR school should be automatically disqualified.

Their best hope is a dramatic set of changes on the school board, followed by hiring an up and comer from a very small school district who is wanting to make a big splash, even if that person only works a few years.

Their other option is to go to the Together BR people, and ask them to put their money where their mouth is, pay the buyout, and open their wallets up, and go down to Jefferson Parish and see how much it would take to hire their super. By all accounts he has brought JP schools back from the brink.