Parent Chats strengthen the marriage between the public and the school Shae Neuschwander
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Superintendent Paul Vranish is a man married to his wife, and a man married to the people in his Texas school district. All of them. For better or worse. Problem is, he says, most superintendents and school leaders treat their public like a one-night stand.
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At an MSBA community engagement session earlier this year, Vranish didn’t mince words. “Schools and school leaders do a lot of things very well. But for most of the year schools treat their public like a one-night stand,” he said. School districts are quick to get out into the community and tell the public they l-o-v-e them when they need money for school programs or buildings. But once that levy is passed, the district usually high-tails out of the room, never to be seen again.
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