After nearly three years of searching for a candidate, Charlottesville City Schools have a new superintendent, who is preparing to move to town and start work on July 1st. Dr. Scottie Griffin, currently the superintendent of the New Orleans school system, will be moving from overseeing 20,000 students to just 4,000. She has been given a four-year contract, with a salary of $140,000. Griffin replaces interim superintendent Ron Hutchinson, who was hired for a two year stint after the process to replace outgoing superintendent Bill Symons was bungled. Julie Stavitski has the story in today’s Progress.
Perriello Recount
Sideblog
- Check out the ISS overhead at 6:12 PM tonight, 11/20. #
- City Council has put the Eastern Connector on hold, what with VDOT having no money or prospect of it. #
- ATO has signed Paul McCartney. For more on what's going on, I recommend John Colapinto's June 2007 article in the New Yorker. #
- Danielson insists that he's still the developer of the Landmark Hotel. Don't these guys talk to each other? #
- Sean Tubbs live-blogged City Council. That's a first, I think. Double points to the first councilor to leave comments on a live-blog during the meeting. #
- CHO says not to count on them for dumping silt—they have no idea how long it'll be until they extend their runway. #
- Construction on the downtown hotel has been halted. Owner Halsey Minor says the lending bank is to blame. Let's just throw a drape over it and hope nobody notices. Update: Well, this just got weird. #
- Jim Duncan commissioned this clever local real estate mapping application. #
- The $37M dam that turned out to be a $70M dam is now a $90M dam. #
- Local blogger Kristen Taylor has started an interesting new website, Knight Pulse, a new-media meta-site, with the Knight Foundation. #
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