In the face of pressure from current and former employees, the district has agreed to hire an outside investigator to look into complaints involving the top administrators at Southside Elementary.
MMSD has been without a communications director since the departure of Tim LeMonds amid public controversy last year. His replacement, Edell Fiedler, promises transparency and accountability.
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‘As a board we established a shared purpose early on in this search process to really lead a transparent process, a process that was accessible and guided by the input of our greater Madison community,’ said Nichelle Nichols, school board president.
The list of criteria used in the search for a new Madison superintendent does not require a track record of actually improving education or improving test scores.