Dallas school board rules that top execs must have residences within DISD

by PegNews wire

DALLAS — The Dallas school board made it policy on Thursday that top executives are required to have permanent homes in the Dallas Independent School District.

Trustees Carla Ranger, Nancy Bingham, and Edwin Flores voted against the policy, but for different reasons: Ranger wanted it to be stronger while Bingham and Flores wanted it the residency requirement to be eliminated. Eliminating the policy would theoretically attract more and/or better candidates; strengthening it would give employees a stronger connection to the community.

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terryorze, says:

So they only required residency, not actually sending your kids to DISD schools. This policy might allow for a slightly stronger connection to the community, but no actual empathy.

So what do you think would be better. Being able to get people with better resumes, or people that actually care about the kids in the school?

Do top executive jobs in DISD ever go to the most qualified person, or just to the best politically connected person?

How do you really judge the performance of a top executive at a place like a school district? Performance? How do you compare the performance of an executive from a highly successful school district filled with students that are wealthy and predisposed to going to college to an executive that manages in a district that has a high percentage of students who are illegally in the country and will have to take jobs that are off the books if they were to excel in school and graduate?

I think the answer is that you cannot pick a highly qualified executive in education based on resume. Hiring has to be based entirely on politics. I think that a less qualified person that has children in the schools they manage is more likely to produce than a person that is chosen based on politics and whether they own a home in far north dallas and send thier children to St. Marks.