Unfair, and not the time

By Carolyn Jones Resides in College Hill Former Cincinnati Public Schools Board Member (2016- 2023) In 16 years of public service as an elected school board official, I have worked with five superintendents, four within Cincinnati Public Schools. Each person possessed a unique skill set and style of leadership, and I have appreciated working with all of them, experiencing various degrees of successes and challenges. I am honored to have been part of a great recruitment process to hire an innovative “change agent” to lead Cincinnati Public Schools’ efforts to move the district into an era of high achievement and overall success. Like all school districts across the nation, Cincinnati Public Schools clawed its way out of a nationwide pandemic, with residual concerns still to be addressed. With overwhelming support across the Cincinnati community, including District unions, Superintendent Iranetta Wright was identified as the right person, at the right time, for the right reasons. After only two years moving the needle forward, the District has been presented with an unprecedented challenge, related to the Superintendent’s performance, that being a perceived lack of collaboration and disregard for employees. Here we are now, amid a controversy wherein finding a reasonable compromise in...