{"id":26476,"date":"2017-11-26T20:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26476"},"modified":"2017-11-26T20:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T20:59:27","slug":"bushland-isd-ought-to-start-over-with-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26476","title":{"rendered":"Bushland ISD ought to start over with search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I almost couldn&#8217;t believe what I read: Bushland Independent School District is about to hire a superintendent whose previous district is facing potentially severe sanctions from the Texas Education Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Bushland ISD, just west of Amarillo, has for years been a district on the move &#8212; <em>in the right direction<\/em>. It has experienced tremendous growth; just a few years ago it opened a high school.<\/p>\n<p>Then when a vacancy occurred at BISD&#8217;s top administrative job with the announcement that Superintendent Dan Wood wanted to retire, school trustees started looking for a new superintendent. You&#8217;d think BISD would be able to have its pick of top administrators.<\/p>\n<p>Then it selected Chris Wigington, superintendent of Big Spring ISD, as its lone finalist for the Bushland job.<\/p>\n<p>Now we hear that Big Spring has struggled academically and that it has what is reported as &#8220;failing campuses.&#8221; TEA reportedly is about to slap some sanctions on Big Spring ISD.<\/p>\n<p>This begs the question: Can Bushland do better than this in searching for a superintendent? I believe it can.<\/p>\n<p>I also believe it should.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost couldn&#8217;t believe what I read: Bushland Independent School District is about to hire a superintendent whose previous district is facing potentially severe sanctions from the Texas Education Agency. Bushland ISD, just west of Amarillo, has for years been a district on the move &#8212; in the right direction. It has experienced tremendous growth; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bushland ISD ought to start over with search<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,9],"tags":[7436,7435,4612],"class_list":["post-26476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-local-news","tag-big-spring-isd","tag-bushland-isd","tag-texas-education-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26477,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions\/26477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}