SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle General public Educational institutions Superintendent Denise Juneau reported Tuesday she will resign when her contract finishes in June.
Her announcement Tuesday follows the area NAACP’s get in touch with for her termination and Seattle School Board President Chandra Hampson indicating she did not assume Juneau had adequate votes to guidance a contract renewal.
The partnership between Juneau and some University Board members has been strained, with the coronavirus pandemic incorporating to issue about Seattle Public Schools’ route, The Seattle Instances described.
“There has never been a additional crucial time for unity and therapeutic,” Juneau said in a statement. “For development to continue in Seattle, the entire-throated guidance of a united university board is essential.”
Hampson stated Juneau has some qualities of an individual who is constant as a result of a disaster, but lacks the skills to effectively control the district’s operational problems and react to community feedback, specifically all over allegations of racism, abuse and misconduct in schools. Her initiatives to tackle people difficulties haven’t been systemic enough, Hampson reported.
Juneau said the district “made considerable development on quite a few fronts” during her tenure, which began in 2018. She reported she was exclusively happy of producing the Office of African American Male Achievement.
Juneau is the initially Indigenous American superintendent in Seattle’s background. She was Montana’s superintendent of public instruction from 2008-2016.
