Are Lunatics Running The Asylum? And the Buffalo Public Schools, too?
With great fanfare, Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent James A. Williams withdrew his name two weeks ago from consideration for the job of Memphis school superintendent. He had been a finalist for the position. “I need to stay here and continue…to offer the children of Buffalo the best education possible.” Nicely said. But soon after scheduling an interview in Memphis for May 19, Williams probably realized his job prospect was D.O.A. The Memphis Commercial Appeal, a daily with a circulation slightly under 200,000, had for days been referring to him as “embattled” Buffalo superintendent James Williams, and they were planning a profile on him for their Sunday, May 18 edition. In teasers for the upcoming profile, the paper wrote that they’d raked through “News databanks” which “revealed scores of stories on Williams, a superintendent for 11 years in two cities.” So they’d done their homework and were going to publish details of Williams’ checkered career a day before the Memphis search
