APS may decide on top job
Board might offer position to acting superintendent tonight
An announcement on the future of Albuquerque Public Schools’ top job could come tonight.
The APS Board of Education is scheduled to go into closed session at the end of its regular meeting to discuss acting Superintendent Raquel Reedy’s evaluation and contract, which runs through June.
“We may have action and we may not,” President Dave Peercy said. “It just depends on what happens.”
One option is skipping an open search and offering Reedy the job permanently — a move the Albuqu erque Teachers Federation supported during public comments at the March 16 board meeting.
ATF President Ellen Bernstein stressed that Reedy has excelled and the district desperately needs her stability.
“Last year, when you were searching for a superintendent, we gave you a lot of documentation about what we were looking for: a superintendent who believes in labor management and collaboration, places teachers and their students at the heart of the district, realizes the importance of social justice and educating for participating in a democratic process and will reconfigure all central offices toward the idea that they serve schools, not the other way around,” Bernstein said. “I
think you have that leader.”
Reedy, a longtime APS administrator, never applied for the superintendent job and has not indicated whether she wants to stay on in the post.
She took the helm Aug. 31 amid a major Central Office shake-up — her predecessor, Luis Valentino, had stepped down the same day, ending his short tenure under a cloud.
Valentino’s hand-picked deputy, Jason Martinez, failed to complete a mandatory criminal background check that would have revealed child sex assault and assault charges in Denver.