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Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 | 11:51 p.m.
Jim Rogers
Three finalists for Clark County schools superintendent will be announced this week, and former Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Jim Rogers says he won’t be among them.
Rogers said the search firm McPherson and Jacobson told him Tuesday morning that the finalists will be three sitting superintendents. “I said, ‘Thanks and goodbye.’ And that was it,” he said.
Jon Ralston, Las Vegas Sun columnist and host of "Face to Face With Jon Ralston," first broke the story in a news flash Tuesday afternoon.
“Never thought I’d end up with the job,” Rogers said. “It was just a question of when I was going to get shut out of it.”
The three finalists will be announced at a 3 p.m. press conference on Thursday before the regular Clark County School Board meeting.
Rogers said he initially was interested in a position as interim superintendent, but after receiving encouragement from the Hispanic community — including a petition with 7,000 signatures — he decided to pursue the full-time job.
The Hispanic community “continued to express their frustration with not being heard and not being responded to,” he said. “I agreed that I would throw my hat in the ring.”
Rogers said if he had gotten the job, he would have worked to strengthen communication between the public and the school board. He also wanted to encourage more responsibility from parents.
“Too many of the parents have not been engaged in the education system,” he said. “In many cases, they have looked to the system to do more than educate, but to raise them.”
"Too many of the parents have not been engaged in the education system," he said. "In many cases, they have looked to the system to do more than educate, but to raise them."
I hope one of their three finalists understands this problem.
I'll second that, teacher...
I've been beating that drum for a long time.
There's just no substitute for it.
oh gee how will we live without him and his donations that he takes back when things dont go his way
It is Jannison that neds to be out of contention.What a fraud.
Rogers is kind of a good guy, but if you hired him heads would roll like the two UNLV presidents he fired - he is always RIGHT!!!
"Rogers said if he had gotten the job, he would have worked to strengthen communication between the public and the school board. He also wanted to encourage more responsibility from parents."
Of course we all (or most of us) agree that parents need to be more involved. My question... how specifically do you make that happen? And how do you enforce it? Rogers would have been too soft on the teachers' unions, I think.
This is good news. One only needs to look at Channel 3 News, once the best in Vegas, and Rogers has managed to destroy. I feel bad for the few good casters that he has left, especially Kevin Janison who moved over there, only to be saddles with a third rate company like Channel 3. I swore I would never watch 8 again after Janison left, but frankly I have switched back. Hopefully Rogers will now take his wheel chair and big mouth, and do us all a favor and retire.
Why am I not surprised that the wholly ineffective, turf protecting "educational professionals" who run the Clark County School District do not want Jim Rogers for Superintendent?
Why am I not surprised that the moronic sheep who are the Clark County School District's elected officials do not want Jim Rogers for Superintendent?
Competence and intelligence is clearly what these entrenched bureaucrats and useless elected weasels fear.
Last night, the man who brought in Michelle Rhee to ruthlessly reform the District of Columbia Public Schools was defeated. She was actually turning the horrible school system around, much to the consternantion of its incompetent "professional" administrations, principals and teachers, who were the force in defeating the man who hired her.
I hear that Superintendent Michelle Rhee will be available soon. If the incompetent nincompoops who run the Clark County School District really DO want to improve the Clark County Schools, they should hold off on these three unknown candidates and hire Michelle Rhee.
Of course, they won't do that because she would upset their sweet apple cart.
Keep taking home those checks CCSD administrators, principals and teachers, and forget about the fact that you grotesquely fail 50% or more of your students.
cpo-I agree with you. It's amazing how they've taken a wrecking ball to ch3 news. I can only imagine the backstabbing that went on as the staff tried to save their own skins.
In Dallas, TX, we are hearing Dr. Michael Hinojosa is among finalists for Superintendent of Clark County Schools. You may be interested in a few of the MANY news articles about scandals during his time as head of our district. We are quite tired of all the negative news. You may want to Google his name or try these sites: http://www.dallas.org/node/forum and go to the Dallas ISD forum.
http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com/arch...
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/jan...
http://cbs11tv.com/business/education/di...
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2008-09-25...
As a former Las Vegas resident and teacher, I now live in Dallas. No wonder the superintendent here wants to get out of town! Too bad, Las Vegas.
No wonder the board doesn't want Rogers; he'd expose the corruption and misappropriation of funds. A few years back I sent evidence and named names to a local TV station; never heard from them. I guess it's taboo.
I'm thinking of all the classroom supplies for teachers that the hundreds of thousands of dollars Rogers would save the district, would buy.
If I were back in Las Vegas, I'd be leading a citizen revolt right down the Strip. How can you take this sitting down?
I get the impression that the school board was afraid of Rogers. He is a hard nosed businessman and I think heads would have rolled if he would have taken over. I believe he would have cleaned house of all the waste in the system. The worst part is he would have worked for free. The budget for the school system is in trouble, but the school board is spending big bucks in the search when we had someone who is a part of the Nevada community and has a lot of insight in what is happening here willing to pick up the pieces. I am not some huge fan of Rogers but he is a successful business man and didn't get there by being mister nice guy. Of course that is my opinion and I could be wrong.