{"id":710,"date":"2011-08-15T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=710"},"modified":"2011-08-15T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:47:00","slug":"is-pinellas-superintendent-on-her-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/15\/is-pinellas-superintendent-on-her-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pinellas Superintendent on Her Way Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinellas County school board members are trying to move up a hearing on Superintendent Julie Janssen&#8217;s future with the district, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/education\/k12\/pinellas-school-board-calls-special-meeting-to-decide-superintendent\/1185999\"><em>St. Petersburg Times<\/em><\/a>. Board members declined to say whether they would support Janssen staying on at the proposed Aug. 23rd meeting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;We need to have, I don&#8217;t want to say closure, but a definite  decision about Dr. Janssen&#8217;s employment situation,&#8217; said board member  Linda Lerner, who declined to say whether she felt Janssen deserved to  keep her job as leader of the state&#8217;s seventh-largest school system.<\/p>\n<p>Lerner  and board member Robin Wikle, who also has called for the special  meeting, said they didn&#8217;t want to wait until the board&#8217;s next scheduled  meeting \u2014 Sept. 13 \u2014 to make a decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Whatever may happen on  the 23rd, we need the ability to take action,&#8217; said Wikle, who also  declined to say if she wanted Janssen to remain.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The timing could be difficult for the district, which starts classes next week and, like all Florida school districts, is in the midst of implementing <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/15\/merit-pay-could-mean-big-rewards-for-florida-teachers\/\">state-mandated reforms<\/a> such as teacher evaluations and pay-for-performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinellas County school board members are trying to move up a hearing on Superintendent Julie Janssen&#8217;s future with the district, according to the St. Petersburg Times. Board members declined to say whether they would support Janssen staying on at the proposed Aug. 23rd meeting. &#8220;&#8216;We need to have, I don&#8217;t want to say closure, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1051,86,1052],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}