December 14, 2003: Headlines: COS - Afghanistan: Secondary Education: Reno Gazette-Journal: Washoe County school trustees decided to make Afghanistan RPCV Paul Dugan permanent superintendent but postponed a formal hiring vote until next month because of the state’s open meeting law
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December 14, 2003: Headlines: COS - Afghanistan: Secondary Education: Reno Gazette-Journal: Washoe County school trustees decided to make Afghanistan RPCV Paul Dugan permanent superintendent but postponed a formal hiring vote until next month because of the state’s open meeting law
Washoe County school trustees decided to make Afghanistan RPCV Paul Dugan permanent superintendent but postponed a formal hiring vote until next month because of the state’s open meeting law
Washoe County school trustees decided to make Afghanistan RPCV Paul Dugan permanent superintendent but postponed a formal hiring vote until next month because of the state’s open meeting law
School board to hire Dugan
Washoe County: But formal vote postponed until next month.
Ray Hagar RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
12/14/2004 11:21 pm
Washoe County school trustees decided Tuesday to make Paul Dugan permanent superintendent but postponed a formal hiring vote until next month because of the state’s open meeting law.
Trustees unanimously voted not to search nationally for a new superintendent, less than a week after many Hispanic and black community leaders asked that Dugan be hired immediately. He took over after Jim Hager, superintendent since January 1999, left in June to join the University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty.
“Rest assured, there will be no regrets,” Dugan told the trustees Tuesday.
Trustees said they have been impressed with Dugan’s handling of minority student and parent issues, including his formation of a committee to study racial unrest at Hug High School.
Dugan was supported by teachers’ and administrators’ unions.
“One of the smartest things Jim Hager did was that he saw something in Paul Dugan and groomed him for this job,” said Tim Fuetsch, the principal at Towles Elementary and the president of the administrators’ union. “Paul Dugan knows this district. He is the man for the job.”
The teachers’ endorsement came less than a week after union president Lynn Warne said a national search should be conducted, even though she supported Dugan.
On Tuesday, Warne backed Dugan’s immediate hiring.
“If we have a candidate like this right in our back yard, why go through a national search,” Warne said.
Trustees delayed the hiring vote on advice from their lawyer, John Albrecht.
Some trustees said they were wary about selecting Dugan without a national search.
“Has Paul been a great interim superintendent? Yes,” board Vice President Dan Carne said. “Will Paul Dugan be a great superintendent? Probably. That is where my hesitation is at the moment.”
Trustee Anne Loring said hiring Dugan was necessary to keep the continuity of leadership in the district and that a superintendent needed to be prepared and in place to lead lobbying efforts for public education at the 2005 Legislature, which starts in February in Carson City.
“The bottom line is that we could lose our forward momentum,” Loring said.
Consultant Jim Huge, hired by the trustees to survey business leaders, teachers, parents and administrators in developing a profile for a new superintendent, said his research showed many wanted Dugan to get the job.
“I’ve done about 50 searches and I have never seen such a groundswell of support for a candidate that I have seen with Paul Dugan,” Huge said.
“You will find people that are equal to Paul but have different skills and you will find people who are equal to Paul and have experience as a superintendent,” he said of a national search. “But I would be hard-pressed to say that you will find somebody who is head and shoulders above Paul.”
Dugan was superintendent for elementary education before trustees promoted him. He has worked in the Washoe County School District for 21 years and was in the Peace Corps in Norway and Afghanistan.
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