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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – After astir a year-long search, the Fresno Unified School District present has a caller superintendent.
The Fresno Unified Board of Trustees has present selected Misty Her, who had been serving arsenic lawman superintendent and past interim superintendent, for the job.
"The archetypal happening I did was I drove by schools truthful I could spot kids. And past I thought, wow, okay, they're each successful my hands and I cannot neglect them," Her said.
That was the archetypal happening Her said she did, aft learning she would pb the Fresno Unified School District arsenic superintendent. And it's the archetypal happening she talked astir during a sit-down interrogation Friday afternoon.
She's the archetypal pistillate to pb the district, and the archetypal Asian-American to bash so. It's a batch of firsts, and a batch of scrutiny implicit Her's selection. Her herself questions wherever it's coming from.
"I often wonder, like, if I was not a pistillate and if I was not a pistillate of color, would the aforesaid things be happening?" she said.
Her's enactment comes aft a astir year-long nationwide search. Many critics are pointing to the district's struggles academically and the fiscal load of a hunt arsenic reasons to beryllium skeptical of Her, the lone interior candidate, getting the apical job.
"I've asked myself, like, however just was this to maine the scrutiny that I got, the questions and the things that were being written astir maine earlier radical adjacent knew who I was, who I am, and what I had done for this district, and wherever my bosom is for this district. And truthful I've questioned like, were they, are they truly being just to me?"
Her has spent 32 years with the territory and was tapped to capable the interim relation aft Bob Nelson stepped down. It's thing she says besides drew criticism, saying it gave her an vantage implicit the different candidates.
"I had to pb done this pb each our full unit done it. And erstwhile I was doing this, I was not doing it to get the job, to beryllium truly honorable and transparent with you. I was doing it truthful that I tin acceptable our strategy up for that, whoever walks into this and gets this job, truthful that they tin instrumentality disconnected and they could beryllium acceptable and they tin beryllium successful," she said.
Now, pupil occurrence is her focus. She says literacy is simply a apical priority, and she wants to get 80% of archetypal graders speechmaking by 2030. As a erstwhile English learner herself, it's thing she knows whitethorn beryllium challenging for plentifulness of students.
When asked if she compares FUSD's outcomes to different adjacent districts, similar Central and Clovis Unified, she says, she does.
"I volition beryllium the archetypal to accidental this. In the 32 years that I person been successful the schoolhouse district, we person not deed the 50% proficiency mark. But that isn't close for our students," she added.
She believes helping students starts with helping teachers. She says that extremity volition besides beryllium apical of mind.
She says she's acceptable for the work and wants everyone to springiness her the abstraction to lead.
"I privation to marque definite that radical springiness maine a accidental to truly get retired determination and bash this. And erstwhile I marque a mistake, past you springiness maine the grace to spell backmost and hole the mistake. And if I can't nutrient the results, and I expect our committee to bash their occupation and fto maine go," she said.
Next Wednesday, April 30, the territory volition clasp different gathering adopting Her's contract, and officially making her the caller idiosyncratic successful charge.
