Adamowski bows out of superintendent search

This is too bad. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that

It looks increasingly likely that the Seattle School Board will not name a new superintendent tonight, following today's withdrawal of the third of four finalists.

School Board President Nancy Waldman said she called finalist Steven Adamowski to "check in" with him this morning, and he informed her that he'd decided to bow out of the process. "It sounded like there just was not the support that he would hope to have, going into a city," she said.

At least the signal from the board is that they won't be hiring Evelyn Castro. But it is a shameful day indeed when the anti-merit, anti-competition worries of the teachers' union are considered more important than the need to improve the schools.

Unfortunately, the failure to hire a superintendent will probably weigh heavily against the incumbent board members who are running for re-election next month, all of whom are better qualified than their challengers.

UPDATE KING-5 TV reports that the last of the four finalists, Evelyn Castro, has also dropped out.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 07, 2003 04:48 PM