Our View: When the shoe is on the other foot
During Monday’s uniformly contentious and often ridiculous meeting of the Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees, the board finally got around to interviewing candidates for the search firm that will be charged with identifying candidates for a permanent schools superintendent.
Slimantics: Football, Deen and Liddell
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Paula Deen and Martha Liddell and the strange phenomenon that ties the two together.
Both have been in the news recently — Deen on the national stage and Liddell here in Columbus.
Columbus school superintendent fired
Columbus Municipal Superintendent Dr. Martha Liddell has been fired.
After a four-and-a-half hour executive session, the Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees voted, 3-2, to terminate the superintendent during Monday’s board meeting.
CMSD’s dropout prevention program delayed
Two weeks after its intended launch date, Project 2020 has yet to be implemented in the Columbus Municipal School District.
Touted as a dropout prevention program, the project has been Dr. Martha Liddell’s pet project since she became superintendent in June 2011.
During interview, Liddell pushes for accountability
Columbus Municipal School District Interim Superintendent Dr. Martha Liddell Friday was interviewed by the board of trustees, as the last of three candidates vying for the full-time job.
A decade later: Was No Child Left Behind the answer?
The No Child Left Behind Act was hailed as a solution to the nation’s education woes when signed into law in 2002. The legislation was complex, but the desired outcome was simple: better teachers, better schools and better education, particularly for minorities and underprivileged children.
Columbus schools ask for community input on next leader
The Columbus Municipal School District is moving forward in its search for a new superintendent, with a public meeting scheduled tonight to solicit feedback on the qualities the community would like to see in the city schools’ next leader.
Columbus schools seek community input on next superintendent
Columbus Municipal School District’s search for a new superintendent officially begins on Sept. 13.
Liddell wants to keep departing Phillips’ vision alive
A motivational poster on the wall of Dr. Martha Liddell’s office sums up the leadership style she says has guided her throughout her 22-year career in the field of education: The image is a photograph of a bridge; the theme is teamwork.