Cleveland school district passes on LaVonne Sheffield
Dr. LaVonne Sheffield
By Jim Hagerty
Online Editor
Nine candidates are still vying for the position of chief executive officer of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, however, outgoing Rockford Public School District 205 Superintendent Dr. LaVonne Sheffield isn’t one of them.
Sheffield recently put in for the job, stating on her application that she left Rockford because of a change in school board leadership and direction.
Sheffield was one of 126 applicants seeking to run the district in the Ohio city where she’s already made headlines.
Sheffield is the former chief of staff and airport director under former Cleveland Mayor Michael White, who was named in a 2005 FBI investigation which linked him to alleged bribery and extortion rings.
According to published reports in Cleveland, a district hiring committee “rejected LaVonne Sheffield, (who will) will step down April 30 as school superintendent in Rockford, Ill., where she clashed with teachers and drew criticism for school closings and other budget cuts.”
The Metropolitan hiring committee also passed on other Rockford-area applicants and former Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher.
Still in the running for the position are administrators from Colorado, New Orleans, Michigan, Iowa, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Ohio.
The new head of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District will replace Eugene Sanders, who retired in February.
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Mark Bonne is gone and WE need to full that void.
We can NOT afford to just preach to the choir. The readers of the Rock River Times seem to get it. The RRStar.com on-line readership is limited, but WIFR and WREX TV stations reach many on the fence and allow comments to their stories without the need to register. Many of the local anchors and reporters know me by name. Several have my cell phone. They need to hear from YOU. Clear concise and RESPECTFUL comments and conversations with decision makers that can reach the masses will help immensely to get our message out there. Try, “Have you heard of the Broad Foundation? Would you please enlighten the community about their movement”. Or, “What about the Baker Tilley Report, why is that not mentioned with the ASSUMED $50 million dollar deficit”?
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There is simply no better time than today to start. Carpe Diem! After all…these are OUR tax dollars, supporting OUR schools, for ALL of OUR children! Support Rockford children-Support public education
Has anyone called Cleveland because they seem to be reporting a slightly different scenario regarding Dr. LaVonne Sheffield’s job search, replacing ‘withdrawn’ with ‘rejected’
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/04/cleveland_schools_committee_pi.html
How interesting for someone who stated ““I have a job. I am being pursued by every major search firm…They’ve been trying to recruit me everywhere.”
How very, very, interesting and pathetic to “withdraw” your name from consideration! Oh LaCONne…you are a sad, sad, example for minority women EVERYWHERE!
Read the little “recent articles” box on Cleveland article. Take out the name Eugene Sanders and replace it with Lavonne Sheffield and it’s the same scenario. It sounds like they have just endured the same mess we have.
Really…. Really… Cleveland was able to see that they did not want to hire a person under investigation by the FBI and we here in Rockford were not smart enough to Google her name and make that determination. Wow how we have fallen when a person of interest in fraud, strong arming and mismanagement of money shots to the top of our list.
Now we have to sit and suffer as she and hopefully all of her inner circle leave us in a total mess. We have beloved principals who have been removed and told they are not team players because they put the students and parents above the “Queen”. Some are still being threatened and some have even been removed once downtown caught wind that the parents had started a petition in his favor. That’s a real example of freedom of speech. Speak out and we will punish the ones who you support. All of this while friends and family members of the “Queen” and her crew stay even after they have assaulted staff members, broken a child’s arm as well as looking for the “easy” women while on a district sponsored outing. That’s nearly as bad as if someone went to a conference, skipped said conference to go shopping and had to be carried from their chair after becoming so drunk they could not walk…….. Oh wait that did happen also…..
Please new board and whoever is the interm super-(Not Earl) reinstate Al Gagliano at Kish, Anne Rundall at Haskell, Chris Koch at Marsh, Theresa Schneider at Riverdahl and Kye Gaffney at Auburn. These people have the support of the parents, staff, students and community…… Do what is right before this district pushes more families to private or Charter schools.
Its never to late to do the right thing….
Maybe next week we can read that Hernandez, Mcardle- nice lawsuit involving her, Cedric and all the others follow her example and resign or be terminated for the damage they have caused.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that with the new school board, ALL of Dr. Sheffield’s cabinet will be dismissed!! What kind of dollar amt in savings will THAT be?? As far as Hernandez, after his eye-rolling at board meetings, it should be a given that he is dismissed!! I also want to see the school atty GONE. There are MANY qualified people IN THIS school district that can do a much BETTER job than any cabinet member now.