While Hill has, not without justification, declared this to be a victory, it isn't as complete as Hill may like to believe. the Casper Star Tribune has come out urging the Legislature to try again, stating:
Now, Hill can not and must not be off the legislative agenda for the
session. Legislators, it's time to get to work. It's time to craft a
bill that can keeps Cindy Hill away from the Education Department -- one
that will survive a Supreme Court review.
The Supreme Court'sThe Tribune further stated:
decision is not the victory Hill or her supporters pretend it is. By a
one-vote margin (and with a stinging dissent) the court left wide
latitude for the Legislature to write -- and narrow, even -- the job
description of the superintendent. It essentially said lawmakers went
too far with Senate File 104, the legislation that stripped Hill of most
of her powers, and said lawmakers broke the constitutional requirement
that demands the superintendent have "general supervision of the public
schools."
Cindy Hill has proven she's not not a good leader. She proven it time
and again in her short term as head of the department, as evidenced by
the number of employees who left rather than deal with Hill.
HerThe Constitutionality of the Legislature's statute always seemed questionable to me, which doesn't say anything about Hill one way or another. As for Hill, the Legislature recently undertook hearings on her conduct in which employees of the Department of Education testified against her, and the Legislature is considering impeaching her. Employees of the department are now justifiably concerned over what her return means. Hill is running for governor in an almost certainly doomed quixotic bid for that office. This reprieve, while perhaps brief, gives her the opportunity to show that she can effectively and rationally run this office, but it will require her to have much different personal leadership behavior than she had before.
return to the Department of Education is bad for the department, bad for
Wyoming education, and hence bad for Wyoming's children.
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ReplyDeleteThe last comment noted that I'd typed in 2014 as 2104. I appreciate the correction. But I didn't quite appreciate the insult offered for the typographical error combined in a comment that committed two grammatical errors. Folks who are going to be insulting anonymous grammarians out to at least be able to type a sentence out correctly. Oh well, the Internet if the refuge of the rude.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that the commenter was perhaps upset with the comment offered above. For some reason, this story attracts some people who are extremely passionate about it, and extremely passionate arguments tend to depart from good behavior at some point.