A Petition for a vote of no confidence in Superintendent Carol Woodbury has been delivered to the School Committee Chairman with 272 signatures.
I know I have no confidence in her ability to turn this district around and take the reigns of the runaway train that is driving our students away in droves to other better performing schools. Do you?
I believe that this district is at a crossroads and it is time for our elected officials to take a stance. The facts are irrefutable and they prove that the performance of this district and the educational product being provided has plummeted in the six years Carol Woodbury has been Superintendent.
Anyone who chooses to support her and advocate for “more of the same” is choosing to fail. The time for change is now and we need leaders who have the courage and fortitude to put our children and their education first. If this School Committee commends the Superintendent for her performance and rubber stamps another contract renewal – then we simply MUST elect new School Committee members.
There is no shame in recognizing a problem and taking steps to resolve it. There is great shame in hiding in denial.
DY Voice of Reason 
From my perspective, I see that those who claim support of the superintendent are making this a personal issue. It’s not personal. Just the facts, ma’am!
Declining school population with escalating costs, lower test scores, inadequate graduation rates, 12% of the district’s students leaving for school choice and charter schools (not to mention private schools)… Carol Woodbury has been in charge for the last six years while the district is going to hell in a handbasket.
Personal? I think not!
Exactly right. Ignoring the growing problems in this district is what has gotten us into the situation we are in. At some point, the School Committee must cut their losses and abandon the current course of [non]action.
We must elect people to the school committee that are willing to discuss the possibility of finding a new Superintendent. Teaching is a lot like coaching, and if the head coach of any professional sports teams turned in the same results he or she would have already been fired. Woodbury is a professional educator, but instead of working with spoiled athletes she is working with children, some of them spoiled, I hope.
We need a new school committee, a new Superintendent, and a couple of new principals.
The fish rots from the head. The only way out of this quagmire is to remove it.