On Memphis City Schools (Cash In Hand?)
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UPDATE (6/13): Frayser High secretary Raynell Williams no longer works at the school.
An audit showed that $9,000 in school funds are missing. But Williams insists that the money was stolen --by someone else, not her.
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UPDATE (10:30PM-6/11): There are high hopes for Cash--and guess what another cash scandal for MCS!
Welcome to Memphis!
UPDATE (6PM): Cash officially withdrew his name in Cincinnati but he also reportedly asked for MCS to allow him to quit if the MCS Board gets dissolved. Hopefully, it won't come to that.
WMC: At least, four years.
ORIGINAL POST: Last night, the MCS Board of Education seemingly thought of everything.
In voting unanimously to hire Dr. Kriner Cash as its next superintendent, the board also confirmed a backup plan--extending the job to Dr. Nicholas Gledich if Cash should decline.
After all, Cash is a finalist for the superintendent position in two other school districts.
Yet, he said Memphis was his top choice and the board clearly wants him.
So, was it not possible to fax or E-mail a PDF of his contract to Cash in Miami as soon as the procedural vote to hire him was completed?
On the conference call, he told WMC's Jason Miles that he had not yet seen a copy of the contract before the call and he was anxious to get the negotiation process started with MCS. Even though he verbally accepted the job, Cash initially said he was keeping his options open until the negotiations were done.
It was unclear how to take that--at least until Commercial Appeal reporter Dakarai Aarons asked Cash if he no longer felt the need to go to Cincinnati today for a job interview there.
In his response, Cash seemed to be feeling out whether the MCS Board wanted him in an unequivocal fashion beyond the 9-0 confirmation vote. And they did.
Search committee chair Martavious Jones later told him so and with that Cash, in my opinion and apparently Aarons, ended all speculation that he would still talk to Cincinnati Public Schools.
But other media are reporting that it's not a done deal yet--which is true until he signs but their reports indicate that Cash is still on the fence. (EyeNews. Flyer.)
He isn't.
After Jones confirmed that the only thing left to do is to complete the contract, Cash said: "There you go, that's unequivoval for me."
2 comments:
While I am gratified to hear that Dr. Cash was chosen by unanimous vote, the procedural issue of the contract does worry me. I cannot believe that a contract was ready to furnish him upon the vote. And they are ONLY NOW BEGINNING the salary negotiations? If Cincinnati really wants him, it seems to make it awfully easy for them to take him out from under us at this point.
I also find it amusing that we are assuming that Gledich will welcome the opportunity with open arms, should things with Cash fall through. I would hate to see us back to square one with this search process with only a couple of months until the first day of school.
Ex. Thanks for commenting. Good points.
It is rather shocking--from a layman's perspective--that some kind of contract draft wasn't ready to go the second after the vote was confirmed.
I would hate to go back to square one either, and I don't think that Gledich would welcome being a second option. I mean, who wants that constantly thrown in their face?
But I digress.
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