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Tom Hayden's avatar

This is kind of an Evanston thing - look at how the City hires people - they do weird secretive processes too, like the hiring of the recent City Attorney who was an insider. With that said, it shouldn't be an Evanston thing. It makes absolutely no sense to me!

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Tracy's avatar

It is a school district thing. The established hiring consultants recommend confidential searches with one final candidate and have for about a decade. There are a small amount of school districts who still haven’t changed to this model and it will continue to shrink.

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Tom Hayden's avatar

I've been pitching a story to the NYT/WSJ about this subject - the rotating door of superintendents and search firms is a *VERY* dirty business and essentially a tax on the public

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