{"id":9982,"date":"2014-08-21T13:48:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=9982"},"modified":"2014-08-21T13:48:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:48:44","slug":"whos-going-to-be-the-new-danville-school-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/21\/whos-going-to-be-the-new-danville-school-superintendent\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s going to be the new Danville School Superintendent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search for Danville&#8217;s new school superintendent unofficially begins today at 5:30 PM. The school board will hold its work session at the GW high school cafeteria and has asked for the public to comment on what they want to see in a new superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at what&#8217;s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Virginia law requires that a school system has to hire a superintendent with 180 days. 50+ of those days have already ticked off the clock because the school board said that they were focusing their efforts on getting the new school year started. Hiring a new superintendent isn&#8217;t an easy process, as the new hire has to be certified as a superintendent by the state. As you can imagine, that significantly limits the choices that the school board has.<\/p>\n<p>I want to make this clear that the following is just my thoughts and conjecture.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that current Pittsylvania County school superintendent will be the next Danville superintendent, and here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McDaniel is feeling the heat in Pittsylvania County for the first time over the controversy about teacher evaluations.<\/li>\n<li>McDaniel has worked in the Danville school system before, and his proximity to Danville means that he&#8217;s already got a good handle on &#8220;how things work&#8221; here.<\/li>\n<li>McDaniel would quickly fit in and have a very short learning curve (if any).<\/li>\n<li>McDaniel only needs a few more years before he can retire.<\/li>\n<li>McDaniel has an overall excellent history in education &amp; administration.<\/li>\n<li>This would be a perfect reason for the Danville school board to not be in a hurry with this 180-day state mandated clock running.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of this is just circumstantial evidence, but I firmly believe something is already going on based on the above reasons. I&#8217;m confident enough that I&#8217;m putting a <strong>70%<\/strong> chance on James McDaniel becoming the next Danville school superintendent. Now let&#8217;s talk about the other potential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Interim superintendent Kathy Osborne has some support from the teachers (with some petitions being circulated supporting her in the schools). She&#8217;s tough to read on whether she has any interest in the position. I&#8217;m going to ask her that directly tonight. She certainly knows the workings of the Danville school system, but she also knows that superintendent jobs tend to be temporary at best. She&#8217;s got a good job now and doesn&#8217;t have to deal with the pressure from the school board like a new superintendent does. I&#8217;d also think she&#8217;d be required to move closer to Danville if she got the job, and that&#8217;s another potential roadblock. Overall, I&#8217;m going to put her chances at <strong>10%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two potential candidates are at the <strong>0%<\/strong> level. Current Halifax County school superintendent has pretty much gotten past the recent community heat about her. She lives in Campbell County so she&#8217;d have to make some kind of move to work in Danville. That&#8217;s not going to happen. The Halifax County school board would be wise to extend her contract soon, because she&#8217;s doing a great job there. Mecklenburg County superintendent James Thornton just got his contract extended so he&#8217;s out too.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves the &#8220;Field&#8221; bet at <strong>20%<\/strong>. Ed Newsome came from the &#8220;field&#8221;, so it&#8217;s possible that could happen again.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;community outrage&#8221; that was promised about the Ed Newsome departure never happened. It will be interesting to see if some people make any suggestions based on race tonight. We&#8217;ll have LIVE! coverage of tonight&#8217;s meeting starting at around 5:20 PM here on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for Danville&#8217;s new school superintendent unofficially begins today at 5:30 PM. The school board will hold its work session at the GW high school cafeteria and has asked for the public to comment on what they want to see in a new superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at what&#8217;s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danville","category-educationcentral","category-opinioncentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2B0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10225,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/05\/osborne-named-danville-interim-school-superintendent\/","url_meta":{"origin":9982,"position":0},"title":"Osborne named Danville Interim School Superintendent","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This deal will allow Kathy Osborne to remain as Interim Superintendent\u00a0 for the rest of the school year if needed. 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