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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Tonight, the Fresno Unified School District is 1 measurement person to having a full-time superintendent.
The committee of trustees announced Misty Her arsenic the finalist for superintendent successful Wednesday's committee meeting. Her is the archetypal woman and Asian-American selected arsenic a finalist to pb the Fresno Unified School District. The announcement was greeted with a roar of applause.
"I'm precise blessed and arrogant of Misty to person the archetypal Hmong-American pistillate arsenic the superintendent of Fresno Unified," Vang Pao Elementary School Principal Yua Lee said.
The historical announcement was made aft a closed session. This opened up the accidental for trustees to openly enactment her.
Her’s travel successful the schoolhouse territory started 3 decades ago. She began arsenic a bilingual teacher and worked up to Deputy Superintendent successful 2021.
"I americium filled with deep, heavy gratitude and unwavering committedness to our students, and they person bold optimism for the roadworthy ahead," Her said.
Her’s roadworthy to superintendent wasn’t ever straightforward.
“Over the past respective months, my household and I person faced harassment, threats, and hate-filled messages simply due to the fact that I wanted to vie fairly, simply due to the fact that I was daring to lead,” Her said.
The Fresno Teachers Association has been astatine likelihood with the schoolhouse district’s handling of the superintendent search.
“The deficiency of transparency and misleading statements from the FUSD committee eroded spot with the public. We congratulate Misty Her and privation her success, due to the fact that Fresno succeeds erstwhile the superintendent succeeds. But that occurrence lone happens by listening to and moving with educators—on harmless classrooms, beardown academics, and existent pupil support,” FTA President Manuel Bonilla said.
The schoolhouse committee is present looking toward the future. Her is blazing a caller way arsenic the archetypal pistillate and Hmong Superintendent successful Fresno.
“It teaches and it shows our small girls, your small girl, my small girl, that they tin beryllium immoderate they privation to be,” President and CEO of The Fresno Center Pao Yang said.
“I came dressed successful a modern dress. It has Hmong signifier to correspond and amusement however arrogant we are of her successful the Hmong assemblage to spot her travel this far,” Lee said.
Her’s Hmong civilization is beloved to her heart, adjacent sharing words successful her autochthonal lingua and bowing to her trustees arsenic a signifier of respect. On April 30, the territory volition clasp different gathering adopting Her’s declaration and officially making her the caller idiosyncratic successful charge.
