{"id":32508,"date":"2018-09-27T03:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T03:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32508"},"modified":"2018-09-27T03:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T03:02:23","slug":"aisd-boss-to-um-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32508","title":{"rendered":"AISD boss to, um, retire?"},"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>If the recent &#8220;retirement&#8221; of Texas Tech University System Chancellor Bob Duncan taught us anything, it is to be sure we don&#8217;t take their initial statements at face value.<\/p>\n<p>Given that, the announcement today that Amarillo Independent School District Superintendent Dana West is retiring from a job she has held for three years makes me wonder: What&#8217;s the story behind the story?<\/p>\n<p>Duncan announced his retirement at Tech, but then we learned that Tech regents had voted secretly to deliver him a vote of no confidence. Sure, he retired. However, it was under duress.<\/p>\n<p>AISD officials are going to meet next week to decide whether to accept West&#8217;s retirement. Oh, and then trustees are going to consider appointing an interim superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>Let me think. Is it <em>normal<\/em> for a school superintendent to &#8220;retire&#8221; at the start of a school year and then walk away?<\/p>\n<p>I, um, don&#8217;t think so.<\/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>If the recent &#8220;retirement&#8221; of Texas Tech University System Chancellor Bob Duncan taught us anything, it is to be sure we don&#8217;t take their initial statements at face value. Given that, the announcement today that Amarillo Independent School District Superintendent Dana West is retiring from a job she has held for three years makes me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AISD boss to, um, retire?<\/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],"tags":[316,683,4724],"class_list":["post-32508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-amarillo-isd","tag-bob-duncan","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508","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=32508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32509,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions\/32509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}