{"id":48352,"date":"2021-04-17T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48352"},"modified":"2021-04-17T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:09:10","slug":"how-do-parents-feel-about-finding-a-new-school-superintendent-will-they-have-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/04\/how-do-parents-feel-about-finding-a-new-school-superintendent-will-they-have-input\/","title":{"rendered":"How do parents feel about finding a new school superintendent? Will they have input?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/adkins-greg001-profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48340\"\/><figcaption>Dr. Greg Adkins<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As one school superintendent steps down, and the search for a new one begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the headline that has an entire school district talking- the retirement of its superintendent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After serving as superintendent of Lee County School District for five years, Dr. Greg Adkins will be stepping away June 30th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adkins is currently under three different investigations it\u2019s no wander he is exiting his job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Board members Mary Fischer, Chris Patricca, Debbie Jordan and Cathleen Morgan shared positive evaluations and widely praised Adkins for his response to COVID-19 and his work to improve the mental and social health of students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betsy Vaughan, Gwyn Gittens and Melisa Giovannelli were more critical in their evaluations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giovannelli\u2019s review was the longest, most detailed and most critical. She wrote in part, \u201cYou encouraged false investigations\/complaints to be made by your staff against board members without board members\u2019 knowledge.\u201d She also wrote, \u201cYou failed to protect whistle-blower employees that came forward for protection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gittens noted \u201cmissed opportunities\u201d during the pandemic to help students who fell behind as the achievement gap worsened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gittens told us Adkins\u2019 retirement brings an opportunity for the District to move forward and reflect on how they all can do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen someone leaves, it is an opportunity to sit down, take the puzzle pieces all off the table and start putting them back,\u201d Gittens said. \u201cSome may not go back on the table, and some might take a different configuration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one school superintendent steps down, and the search for a new one begins. It\u2019s the headline that has an entire school district talking- the retirement of its superintendent. After&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}