Superintendent Denise Lowe’s first four-year contract with the school district ends this December and the board of education [BOE] will soon vote on whether to keep her in her post.
Lowe has been superintendent since 2009.
Board members have discussed Lowe’s soon-to-expire contract in executive session, closed to the public and without Lowe in attendance, at the last two BOE meetings.
Some members of the community have taken to the microphone at recent BOE meetings during public comment imploring the board to renew her contract.
John Muhammad, a community activist who addresses older students about gang violence every year, has spoken in favor of renewing Lowe’s contract. At last night’s BOE meeting, two members of the cities Ministerial Alliance urged the board to renew her contract as well.
“We’ve made a lot of headway and I give that [credit to] the board and the superintendent,” said Rev. John Bradley, a member of the alliance. “[Dr. Lowe] has participated in pushing the school years forward … The children deserve the best they can get.”
