Natchez-Adams School District superintendent evaluated

Published 12:02 am Saturday, January 30, 2016

NATCHEZ — The Natchez-Adams School District Board of Trustees conducted a closed-door annual evaluation of the district’s superintendent Friday.

A summary of the evaluation, the meeting for which lasted a little more than an hour, will be released to the public early next week, but Board President Tim Blalock said it was his opinion based on the evaluation, Superintendent Frederick Hill is “doing everything the board is asking him to do.”

“Have we met all of our goals? No,” Blalock said.

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The board used an evaluation form from the Mississippi Association of School boards to conduct the evaluation. The board cited the personnel exemption under the open meetings law as its reason for meeting in executive session.

The form is divided into eight standards, with each standard having multiple duties under it. The form allows for the board to find the superintendent’s performance of each duty satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

The standards for evaluation are:

-Provides leadership to the school board in implementing the district’s vision, mission and goals.

-Assists the school board in the continuous improvement of the school district.

-Assists the school board to implement the district’s organizational structure.

-Provides leadership to the school board in policy development and policy implementation.

-Meets established requirements in developing and conducting board meetings.

-Provides leadership as superintendent to the school board in personnel management.

-Provides accurate data to assist the school board in financial management.

-Provides leadership to the school board in board, staff and community relationships.

Hill’s evaluation coincides this week with the issuance of a final judgment from U.S. District Court Judge David Bramlette III in the case of a white principal who successfully argued that Hill and Assistant Superintendent Tanisha Smith racially discriminated against her.

The judgment awards approximately $668,000 to former principal Cindy Idom.

The school district can still file an appeal in the case, and Blalock, whose term on the school board ends Feb. 29, said he is unsure how the judgment would affect Hill’s status as superintendent.

“Whether this judgment changes anything, I don’t know,” he said.

Attempts to reach other school board members were unsuccessful.

Hill did not return a request for comment.