Fresno Unified staff transfers finalized amid community pushback

By Sitting Silent, Misty Her Flunks This Fresno Unified Assignment

Facing a major leadership test this week, Fresno Unified Superintendent Misty Her ducked the assignment. Instead of publicly addressing the concerns of parents and educators about the reassignment of five principals and 26 vice principals, she sat silently in a packed boardroom. As if silence would magically make the problem and frustration disappear. Everyone there needed to hear from the superintendent. She approved the transfers, and the buck…

Fresno Unified staff transfers finalized amid community pushback

Parents and educators in Fresno Unified urged the district at the final board meeting of the school year to reconsider transferring around two dozen or so administrators to different schools, a staffing shuffle that the district is saying is already finalized. First during a news conference on Tuesday and then again during Wednesday’s regular school board meeting, parents, students and staff from FUSD schools advocated for vice principals and pr…