What’s next?

The Clark County School Board will discuss the process of hiring a replacement for Skorkowsky at a future meeting and could launch a national search.

“We’ll go back and look what we’ve done in the past and have discussions with the entire board, from an (agenda) item, so the public would be very aware of our thoughts and what direction we’re going to go,” Board President Deanna Wright told the Review-journal on Thursday.

Skorkowsky side-stepped the question of why the two trustees were not at the event, saying it was important to have his mentors and his people there.

Reaction to depature

The announcement drew reaction from across the state’s education community.

The teacher’s union reiterated concerns about Skorkowsky and called for new leadership sooner than the end of his contract.

Augspurger, the administrators union official, agreed Skorkowsky and the board should part ways immediately.

“There’s no way he will be effective over the next 10 months, he cannot fix the problem that he created,” he said.

But Steve Canavero, state superintendent of instruction, said he was pleased that Skorkowsky was going to stay on and speak more freely.

“Quite frankly I find the candor refreshing and he’s incredibly smart so he’s going to have good, good ideas and perhaps he feels unbridled now,” Canavero said.

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