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Michelle Bryant: “Two other school districts passed on this [Dr. Kasilius].”

Featuring: Michelle Bryant, Democratic | Former Candidate, Wisconsin State Senate District 6

SAY SOMETHING REAL WITH MICHELLE BRYANT Feb. 13

Published February 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 22:04

He now works for this search firm. So if I'm on the Internet for 10 minutes, 15 minutes top, and I come up with, on my own, Two other school districts passed on this [Dr. Kasilius]. This brilliant person that they have now brought to nps. People talked about that they didn't think she had enough experience when she became the superintendent of Boston Public Schools. (22:04)

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Asserts that two other school districts did not hire Dr. Kasilius.

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“Milwaukee Public Schools announces that they have made a selection for the superintendent's slot, and the only thing that they are basically…”
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“It ends up being an 8 to 1 vote, if I think I got that right. Daryl Jackson, director. Daryl Jackson did not vote for Dr. Brenda Kilas to be…”
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“Dr. Kilius, if I understand this correctly, was hired by the Boston Public school district in 2019.”
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“Dr. Kasilius had two years left on her contract in Boston.”
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“Dr. Kasilius is no stranger to Memphis because she got her master's degree and maybe even her PhD, but I know her master's degree down in…”
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“Dr. Brenda Kasilius was passed over as recently as December 2024 by the St. Paul School District to be their superintendent.”
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“There were questions and concerns raised at the time when she was hired there because people felt like she had not had big urban school…”
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“In 2022, a new mayor is elected in the city of Boston, and there is an agreement for Dr. Brenda Kilious to resign from the Boston Public…”
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“They negotiate for her to get a year's salary before she leaves. So she leaves with roughly about a $300,000 payout.”
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“They narrowly escaped a state takeover of the Boston public school districts School district.”
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“There were misrepresentations about graduation rates, about attendance, about a number of things in relationship to performance data with…”
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“She leaves Boston in 2022, and she goes to Memphis and applies for a job in Memphis in 2023 to be the superintendent of the Memphis public…”
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“The name of the firm that did the search for the Memphis school district is Hazard, Young Atteya and Associates.”
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“The Memphis school board is so kind of, we not really, because they got like 40 some applicants that apply to be the superintendent down in…”
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“St. Paul, they pass on her.”
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“In St. Paul, when she applied to be the superintendent, that was just in December of 2024.”
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“The search firm that handled it for Milwaukee Public Schools is Hya.”
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“The same firm that did the search for the Memphis public school system is the same firm here in Milwaukee.”
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“Carlton Jenkins, who was from Milwaukee, who applied for the superintendent position down in Memphis, now works for this search firm.”
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“People talked about that they didn't think she had enough experience when she became the superintendent of Boston Public Schools.”
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“In Memphis, the school board or whoever the group is that hires the search firm, they questioning the methodology of the search firm.”
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“A district that had worked with her did not choose [Dr. Kasilius] or they questioned basically the metrics that was used to put her in the…”
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“This other, smaller district, Osseo, they pass on her.”
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“Another smaller district, one by the name of oio, also passed on [Dr. Brenda Kasilius].”
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“The executive search firm, the same firm that NPS used, Hazard, Young and Atelier & Associates. HYA has been involved in multiple…”
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“When they did the search for a school district in Maryland, that search cost the district $52,000.”
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“You just got passed over for a job in December in St. Paul.”
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“Definitely twice that I found St. Paul and this ASIO and then she withdrew her name when they raised concerns about the search firms…”
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“Nobody else has offered to [stop by Nov. to introduce themselves] that I'm aware of, at least in terms of Masha.”
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“Daryl Jackson, the one that we were told, the only school board director that we were told, who didn't support her.”
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“Kilius had only been a school superintendent for six months before being appointed as the Minnesota Commissioner of Education by the former…”
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“She then went on to be the Boston superintendent with only six months of experience.”
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“You said you had a search firm. You said it was 40 some applicants. This was the three that, you know, stood out.”
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“Our kids are reading at a 9% proficiency. Jesus. Math is somewhere like 15. Whatever them numbers, is, they, like, below 15 in both subject…”
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“There is a problem with this search firm.”
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“We only have one member of the school board that's a citywide at large member.”
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“Everybody else represents a particular part of town [on the school board].”
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“You voting to support systems that have little accountability.”
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“Getting behind Britney Kenzer in this DPI race.”
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“The upcoming Supreme Court race can shift this court from one direction to another.”
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“Your race is one of those that they're projecting to either be on track or surpass possibly that spending amount to get the message out.”
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“There had been some conversation about the way an ad marketing piece, an ad had been done against you by your opponent and that it had been…”
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“I am very conscious and cognizant of what's happening in terms of some of the work to deal with redistricting in the state.”
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“Folks have said that this race has national implications.”
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“Susan Crawford is a candidate for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court judge who is currently a circuit court judge in Dane County.”
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“When I last looked at Ballopedia, there were, like, eight people whose names were mentioned as possible candidates for this seat.”
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“He is running for the 3rd Aldermanic District seat. Lives over in River West. Rufus King graduate raised over near the Sherman park area.”
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“There are eight names that are going to appear on the ballot [for the third automatic district].”
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“This is a nonpartisan, technically nonpartisan race.”
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