{"id":162,"date":"2011-01-03T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T19:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emidfamilies.org\/up2date\/?p=162"},"modified":"2011-01-03T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T19:57:01","slug":"brenda-cassellius-leaves-emid-to-become-commission-of-education-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/archives\/162","title":{"rendered":"Brenda Cassellius leaves EMID to become Commissioner of Education, 1\/3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday Dr. Brenda Cassellius announced that she would be stepping down as EMID&#8217;s superintendent in order to become Minnesota&#8217;s Commissioner of Education today. As she wrote in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emid6067.net\/blog\/?m=201012\">blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This means I will lead the Department of Education, with responsibilities for operations and policymaking for all aspects of education \u2014 from implementing No Child Left Behind and supporting PreK-12 learning, to community ed and higher education. This is an unexpected honor and I am humbled to have been asked to serve our great state in this role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her sudden departure from EMID leaves a lot of balls in the air. In combination with the departure of EMID&#8217;s longtime board chair, families and EMID staff and administrators will have their hands full trying to keep the district on course. <\/p>\n<p>The EMID Board announced that it will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, January 5th at 5:30pm at Harambee to discuss the appointment of an interim superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Brenda later clarified that higher education is actually not part of the portfolio of the <a href=\"http:\/\/education.state.mn.us\/\">Department of Education<\/a>. That role actually belongs to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohe.state.mn.us\/\">Office of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday Dr. Brenda Cassellius announced that she would be stepping down as EMID&#8217;s superintendent in order to become Minnesota&#8217;s Commissioner of Education today. As she wrote in her blog: This means I will lead the Department of Education, with responsibilities for operations and policymaking for all aspects of education \u2014 from implementing No Child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emid","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}