‘No secrets’ says Hoover schools president after no public interview for school superintendent
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It didn’t have to happen, either.
It was yet another curious search. To many, curiously clandestine, too.
Yet it didn’t have to happen. Not this way.
At a special call meeting late Wednesday afternoon, the Hoover City Schools Board, which summarily and surprisingly rejected five finalists earlier this month, named retired educator Dee Fowler as the next Hoover City Schools Superintendent, pending the negotiation of a three-year contract.
Fowler, a former superintendent at Madison City Schools, did not apply for the opening and was never publicly interviewed.
Racial omissions in Hoover schools selection process didn’t have to happen, shouldn’t have happened
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Hoover High School is one of two high schools in the Hoover City School district in Hoover, Ala.
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This all could have been avoided, more than likely. Should have been avoided, actually.
All the tribulation. All the animus and accusations. All the disappointment. Even the anger.
It all could have been avoided if one man, rookie Hoover City Councilman Steve McClinton, had just followed the process a process he inherited and was implemented long ago specifically to avoid just this type of thing.