SAN ANTONIO — Southside Independent School District Superintendent Ricardo Vela's continued bending of the rules while trying to gain his state certification needs to be stopped.
He is making a mockery of the Texas public educator certification system, and his actions are an affront to certified school teachers and superintendents who play by the rules.
Vela, who lacks superintendent certification credentials required by the state, is seeking to fulfill one of the basic requirements, teacher certification, by doing his student teaching in his own district supervised by his own employees, San Antonio Express-News education writer Alia Malik reported.
He is going through TeacherBuilder, an online program operated by Noe Sauceda, a former superintendent who was fired by Brownsville ISD in 2008 for hiring unqualified employees, among other things. That history raises other issues about whether Sauceda is qualified to supervise a rogue superintendent, but we leave that debate for another day.
In addition to obtaining teaching credentials, state law requires two creditable years of experience as a classroom teacher for certification as a principal, which is required for superintendent certification. It will be interesting to see how Vela plans to manage that while holding down a full-time job as superintendent.
Vela told Malik, “I’m going to do what I have to do to take care of what I need to do to get certified. If anyone has a problem with it, well, I’m sorry.”
What Vela is doing is wrong on many levels, and his failure to see the inherent problems is indicative of the lack of professionalism he brings to the job. He cannot be allowed to continue on his current path, making up the rules as he goes along.
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Monday, October 13, 2014
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rita
11 comments:
"The Texas Education Agency needs to step in. The agency this summer granted Vela a superintendent waiver with the stipulation that he make significant progress toward meeting the requirements. We are sure this is not what it had in mind."
"The board did not include superintendent certification as a requirement for the job when it recruited Vela, and the district failed to file for a certification waiver for months after Vela was hired." SA Express-News
Give all the details when printing your statements. "Sauceda up to his old tricks . . " Perhaps not, but you are.
El Talibán strikes again .
The responsibility is with TEA, a complaint needs to be filed by a resident of the district, the board can be replaced, by the assignment of a master, also the superintendent can be removed, if the wavier has not been completed. These people [board] cane be replaced, but the residents have to step up to the plate, and act.
Is this Vela guy related to Cata or Lucy?
OMG! We need this guy in Brownsville. How can we let such an incompetent POS not be in the Valley?
With his talent for bad conduct, he could be the associate director of former UTB president Julieta Garcia's Whatever Institute.
Hey Juan I hear Cata's attorney Frank Perez is now writing the articles for you and you just print them on your blog. Is that true?????
Hey Juan I hear Cata's attorney Frank Perez is now writing the articles for you and you just print them on your blog. Is that true?????
11:45pm is not Frank.
Minerva is just jealous because Otis is using her, Jose Hector, and Cesar to get away with agenda items.
I have a life teachers certificate, life counselors certificate (K-12), and a PhD. I have taught and/or counseled at every level from pre-k through doctoral. I do not possess the training that establishes an effective skill set to be a either a principal or superintendent. How can intelligent people believe that a person certified as a teacher's aid be prepared to be manage a school district? (Van Vaughn)
Vela, from Edinburg, is an idiot!! He doesn't even know what is going on in his district. Is trying to get all of his relatives into Southside, which includes his wife!!!
I would also look at the staff vela has hired. They have an athletic director with no masters degree and multiple DUI's who has basically hired his family and friends as coaches
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