Daily Journal – All school superintendents in Mississippi should be appointed

All school superintendents in Mississippi should be appointed

Moving to a system of appointed superintendents in all school districts in the state has been advocated by groups like the Mississippi Economic Council for decades.

This newspaper for just as many years has editorially supported the concept — not because elected superintendents are automatically inferior to their appointed counterparts but because elections greatly restrict local school districts in choosing their leaders.

Daily Journal via The Sun Herald
1/27/13