Contract Reached With Choice For New Schools Chief

What a surprise this selection is. So exactly why did we pay for an outside search??? Maybe the board should look up what 'Transparentcy' actually means.

What a great choice, class, intelligence, cultured! An Educator who has literally taught at the middle school level, high school, Principal, Asst. Principal, who made her own way! Hopefully, she will bring in new Central Administrators that will be in/out of schools and actually taking part in daily operations academically,, creatively, and community involvement! Now, clean house with replacing coaches, coordinators, principals, and assistant principals that will ensure our students will be educated, disciplined to respect the values of meaningful education! The community is here to support you!

Definition of consensus excision making:”Consensus decision making is a creative and dynamic way of reaching agreement between all members of a group. Instead of simply voting for an item and having the majority of the group getting their way, a group using consensus is committed to finding solutions that everyone actively supports, or at least can live with. This ensures that all opinions, ideas and concerns are taken into account. Through listening closely to each other, the group aims to come up with proposals that work for everyone.”

HBCU5 - No one who has come up in that system, has benefited from that system, and has her people making up that system, is going to dismantle that system. C'mon. Only an outsider would do that. Sigh...expect more of the same.

xhttps://www.edweek.org/leaders/2022/as-students-they-felt-disconnected-as-leaders-they-champion-equity

why was the money wasted for a search committee? lets hope that things work out.

The independent got this information before the teachers did

So a failing school system chooses to go with the candidate that has held multiple leadership positions within the failed system, and then left it. Expect nothing to change.

The fig leaf has fallen. And the BOE just wasted a lot of money to get somebody who will do the same things they've been doing. Shocking. Not.

Welcome Madeline Negrón you are sorely needed. May your leadership reflect the qualities you have brought into your own life as you try to instill good values into our students lives. Remember not all will be great but all can be great personally.

Well, this is no surprise. We know this months ago and coukd have saved the city some money. I hope she's ready. She had been away from New Haven for a bit. Hopefully she won't bring more of Hartford practices with her. We saw what happened to a former superintendent, from Hartford, when she came to New Haven. Get ready to see some former faces return.

NHPS is a disaster. High absenteeism, daily violence, no discipline, a cesspool of a school system. Hundreds of overpaid employees putting out a product that gets worse every year. Expect nothing to change, but watch the raises!

If you haven't yet seen the 'NHFT Vision For Our Next Superintendent,' check it out: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CC-yjhfvFWk070W-01feVAzamjU6EYG5EhQKchm9gu0/edit

Without fanfare, without drama, without histrionics or politics, without strife, division or bitterness, the BOE has managed to pick a superintendent.
That alone is a major accomplishment and victory.
May this be a positive sign of better things to come from the BOE.
Congratulations and best wishes to our new superintendent, Dr. Madeline Negron!
After all the speculation, criticism and negative commentary, let us move on, close ranks, and join together and work together as a community with Dr. Negron to improve our schools and the quality of education for all.
Dr. Neuron is a professional educator who is a human being, not a miracle social worker. She cannot replace the role of parents in making sure kids come to school every day, behave themselves and comply with school rules, respect the authority of educators, participate in the educational process, do their academic work and learn.
It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a village to most effectively educate a child. The burden of responsibility for quality education must not be placed on Dr. Negron alone, or the BOE. There must be a REAL partnership of educators, parents, students, community and business leaders, and the general public to make our schools better equipped to confront and resolve the challenges that we must overcome.

While l can’t speak to the integrity of the process, l have reason to believe that the result is a big win for NHPS. A friend who is a dedicated teacher told me she was hoping Ms Negrón would be the BOE’s choice as she had taught at a school where Negrón was the principal and that she had been a top-notch administrator who knew how to get things done and was highly supportive of her staff. Let’s hope this competence shines through in her new role.

And a note to City Yankee2: no, your understanding of the article is not correct. The term “plurality “ was used to refer to the composition of New Haven’s student population, not to the BOE committee’s vote!

As a parent I am so disappointed but it was what we knew was going to happen. Negron was selected a LONG TIME AGO! The wheels were in motion at every meeting, function, fundraiser taking place with politicians, educators and BOE members in our city. They don’t want what is best for our children they want to use Negron for their benefit. Pay close attention to people who will lose their positions and who will be brought on. Our children deserve someone who would have come in and rocked the boat and forced change! You can not fool us pretending that the community and students had a voice. You brought back a person who left our city who chose to leave our kids …. Why does she care about our children now? Money talks!! A because a big paycheck now let’s hear Negron lie about how much she cares about our kid’s education now. Maybe she should give back the money that the city paid for the “pretend search” that got her the job? It’s a sad time for the children of families of our city

The unfortunate headline of this story with a slightly different perspective in the YALE DAILY NEWS:
"Negrón leaked as NHPS superintendent pick ahead of Wednesday confirmation vote
Board of Education member Darnell Goldson released the name of the Superintendent two days before other members of the board planned to publicly announce the appointment."
My earlier optimism about some degree of BOE unity was somewhat premature. Apparently one BOE member is not a "team player" who could cooperate with the rest of the BOE to hold the announcement of the superintendent choice for a couple of days!
Check out the entire article in the Yale paper.

I don't know if I've missed this, or if it was discussed with the constituent groups, but all the articles I've seen talk about the positions the candidates have held. There is little to nothing about what they've accomplished. It doesn't matter at this point, but it contributes to my cynicism about NHPS, and specifically the BOE.

I am not trying to criticize our new superintendent,however, I like to keep facts straight. The University of Connecticut offers a sixth year in Curriculum and Instruction but not a Ph.D. Maybe she received an EdD?
Just inquiring about the actual degrees earned since that is rather important.

Conscience unfortunately colon1 is right. this is an excerpt from an Article in the New Haven Register from December of 2022 when Reverend Dr. Kimber was speaking on the challenges of NHPS. "Currently, there are rumors of behind-the-scenes maneuvering for Madeline Negron, a former employee of New Haven and current chief of academics, teaching, learning and student supports in Hartford. I mention this because it is worthwhile to understand the backroom dynamics of this process. Negron recently began attending NHBOE meetings despite her employment in Hartford. Rivera has been advocating for the BOE to hire more Latinos and with hiring a superintendent in particular. Joyner was a strong advocate for a Spanish language superintendent during the previous search process. The fix is in. Negron may be the best candidate, time will tell. But we must ensure that there is a high public confidence in the process."

Reverend Dr. Kimber knew this in December of 2022. But that does not might she is not a good choice. Good luck Dr. Negron!