Given below are the member of the MPS Superintendent Task Force, who botched the search so terribly, raising the same questions that I posed in the case of the MPS Board of Education Members who made such a terrible decision when they cast their votes formally on Friday, 1 December 2023
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The Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Superintendent Search Task
Force 2023
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Superintendent Search Task Force
2023 that bungled the search so badly was as follows >>>>>
Task Force Member Task
Force Role Appointed by
/MPS
Affiliation
Brenda Johnson Education
Minneapolis
Support Federation
Professionals
of Teachers
(ESP)
(MFT),
ESP
Chapter
Wyhett Johnson ESP Student
Representatives
Matthew Collier Teacher MFT/
Teacher Chapter
Katie Kamphoff Teacher Student
Representatives
Matthew Arnold Principal Minneapolis
Principal
Forum
Mauri Friestleben Principal Student
Representatives
Drew Wessen Student Student
Representatives
Titilayo Bediako Community
Director
Member Joyner Emerick
Nekima Community
Director
Levy-Armstrong Member Sharon El-Amin
Patricia Community
Director
Torres Ray Member Kim Ellison
Nekima Community
Director
Levy-Armstrong Member Sharon El-Amin
Francisco Segovia Community
Director
Member Collin Beachy
Abdirahman Community
Director
Muhktar Member Faheema
Feerayarre
Lucie Skjefte Community
Director
Member Ira Jourdain
Abdihafid MPS
Board of MPS Board of
Mohammed Education Education
Student
Representative
Director MPS Board of
Director,
Abdul Abdi Education MPS Board of
Education
Director MPS
Board of Director,
Adriana
Education MPS Board of
Cerrillo Education
Director MPS
Board of Director,
Lori
Education MPS Board of
Norvell Education
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Apparently, the discussion
and debate within the MPS Superintendent Search Task Force turned very
boisterous and acrimonious, with just a few members dominating the
debate. MPS Board of Education Director and Clerk Lori Norvell, as chair
of the Task Force, eventually called in staff from BWP associates, the search
firm who identified five candidates from 25 applicants for recommendation to
the Task Force, to mediate the discussion.
I do not at this point
have a firm conclusion as to how only two candidates were recommended by the
Task Force to the entire MPS Board of Education with the exclusion of Rochelle
Cox’s name, but according to reports the majority of participants either
supported her as the number one candidate or wanted her name recommended to the
entire Board; supporters included the principal, the teacher not
officially representing the MFT--- but
maybe even the official MFT representative and probably the Education Support
Professional (ESP [teacher’s aide), with whom Cox has developed an excellent
relationship), at least three of the five community members, and the three
students (including the two MPS Board of Education Student Representatives).
There is, then, a high
probability that two or three voluble members prevailed in limiting the options
to two candidates, not reporting Cox’s name out to the entire Board.
In doing so, this task
force and the Board of Education that created this inept and corrupt group, who
had the opportunity to make a historic decision in the advancement of pubic
education in the United States, instead made the greatest blunder even made by
a group participating in processes leading to the appointment of a superintendent
of public school district.
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