On March 17, the Agency of Education announced that education secretary Dan French was stepping down to take a position with the Council of Chief State School Officials.

In the months that followed, state officials seemed to take a, shall we say, unhurried approach to filling the vacancy. In fact, it wasn’t until Monday, September 25 that the state Board of Education formally posted the job opening.

And the application deadline is October 5. That’s a filing period of only 11 days.

Eleven days.

Recapping here. They took 192 days, more than half a year, before opening the “search,” and now that they’ve finally gotten around to it, the search process will last a mere 11 days.

That’s weird. On both ends.

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