{"id":38207,"date":"2019-07-31T02:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T02:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38207"},"modified":"2019-07-31T02:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T02:52:51","slug":"aisd-board-is-now-full-time-to-get-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38207","title":{"rendered":"AISD board is now full &#8230; time to get to work"},"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>Kayla Mendez and David Nance now are members of the Amarillo Independent School District board of trustees.<\/p>\n<p>Good for them. I wish them well from afar.<\/p>\n<p>I will stipulate that I don&#8217;t know either of them. I am left to presume the school board that chose them did so after doing its due diligence. I actually spoke in this blog in favor of former Amarillo Mayor Debra McCartt. So, she didn&#8217;t get the nod. Time to move on, Mme. Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The board also wisely avoided selecting an applicant who got <em>defeated<\/em> in the AISD election in May, but who wanted to return to the fray.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s the challenge awaiting the board? Transparency seems to stand out.<\/p>\n<p>AISD is still trying to slog its way out of the mess created by the removal of an Amarillo High School volleyball coach and the mess that swirled around a former trustee who hassled, harassed and harangued the coach over playing time delivered to the trustee&#8217;s daughters.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a thought: How about revealing to the community the circumstance that led to the departure of the coach, who left a post she held for a single season?<\/p>\n<p>The trustee implicated in the coach&#8217;s departure, Renee McCown, has quit; so did former trustee John Ben Blanchard.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez and Nance now get to step into what all observers should hope is a public school system that is prepared to fix what went wrong and then explain fully how it repaired it.<\/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>Kayla Mendez and David Nance now are members of the Amarillo Independent School District board of trustees. Good for them. I wish them well from afar. I will stipulate that I don&#8217;t know either of them. I am left to presume the school board that chose them did so after doing its due diligence. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AISD board is now full &#8230; time to get to work<\/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":[214,8315],"class_list":["post-38207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-aisd","tag-amarillo-hs-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207","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=38207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38208,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207\/revisions\/38208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}