Superintendent Ramos Leaving?
The old buzzwordy initiatives will once again be replaced by new buzzwordy initiatives, as it was when he replaced Osborne. That is the way of the world.
Given his history, at the time of his hire expectations were not high. The cap prevents the best from being interested.
The BOE is on the hook for this one.
BG9 said:
yahooyahoo said:
His tenure was a major disappointment.
And yet he was given a 23,000 bonus.
Christie's limit on pay is a disaster (like almost everything he has done ).
Best we can hope for is to find someone who wants to make the jump from Principal to Super and hope they work out -- but of course if they do a good job they will then be stolen by a district in another state. And it they don't work out the BOE will be criticized for not hiring someone with more experience (and of course only the mediocre ones are left because the good ones left already for greener pastures).
Superintendents are a revolving door of mediocre candidates at any price. The pool is not that deep. Also, who in the district chooses them and what qualifications do they have to do so? This lack of consistency is not good for our district.
The Board, who was elected by the people, do so. So you can not complain in that regard.
mikescott said it well. The cap does limit the pool to young ambitious people looking for a leg up, who like Osborne will jump to a higher pay location when the opportunity arises or old guys like Ramos who can often get a pension from another state while working in NJ so the cap is less an issue.
This guy was a mistake from the day he was hired. Unfortunately, the BOE members were blind to the reality that a 60+ year old candidate could not find a job in this country and managed to spend thousands to give a free trip to the U.S. to one of his foreign-based buddies. Do not expect them to come up with anyone better the next time. Woe is us.
Ramos cleared out a bunch of the prior administration and put in some of his old connections. It seems strange that we'll be left with his buddies, but not with him.
The next Sup't has the un-enviable position of having to work with a fairly new set of administrators to the district... and possibly some fractures within the ranks. Based on only a tiny bit of one hiring process I observed, it appeared that the local input provided on the admin candidates was not taken into account by Supt Ramos.
New person will try as hard as possible to clean house again. Because again that is what always happens.
We live in a Dilbert world.
Aah, the classic "leaving to spend more time with my family".
So if we find a bright young person we need to sign them to a five year deal and hope they don't fall flat.
I really know nothing of this, but I wonder if we have any good candidates from our principal pool such that we could "hire from within"?
When the previous Millburn Superintendent decamped to greener pastures in an uncapped state, Millburn (after some dysfunction including offering the job to someone before the full Board was on-board) hired the Assistant Super as Super. It has worked out fine. She is young and occasionally the inexperience has shown but at the end of day she has gone about her business with a minimum of drama. But since in moving from Assistant to Super there was no bump in salary due to the cap I am sure that when her contract is up she will look to take the experience she has gained to greener pastures unless the cap is gone by then.
Perhaps if we were able to offer 500K plus the lifetime bennies, we could get a higher caliber bureaucrat.
There are two Asst. Superintendents listed on the district website. I am not familiar with either one:
Mr. Kevin Walston - Assistant Superintendent for Administration
Ms. Susan Grierson - Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction
Gilgul said:
When the previous Millburn Superintendent decamped to greener pastures in an uncapped state, Millburn (after some dysfunction including offering the job to someone before the full Board was on-board) hired the Assistant Super as Super. It has worked out fine. She is young and occasionally the inexperience has shown but at the end of day she has gone about her business with a minimum of drama. But since in moving from Assistant to Super there was no bump in salary due to the cap I am sure that when her contract is up she will look to take the experience she has gained to greener pastures unless the cap is gone by then.
Susan Grierson was a Principal of Jefferson who has now been Asst. Supt. for a few years (since Osborne). She had a child go through the district.
Kevin Walston is from Bridgeport CT, and was part of the first set of administrators selected by Dr. Ramos in 2015:
Apparently there is a special Board meeting Wednesday at 7pm to discuss/appoint an interim superintendent.
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Maplewoodian reporting that Ramos will soon announce his departure from the district. Any details available beyond this?