A superintendent has to make all recommendations
before a board of education votes to hire.
A board can’t vote to hire anyone not put forward by the superintendent.
In 1997, Board Candidate Nancy Cardone’s son was hired
to work in the Lodi schools.
In 1997, Board Candidate Nancy Cardone’s sister was the
superintendent of the Lodi schools.
Cardone’s sister recommended the hiring of Cardone’s
son.
Through nepotism and Lodi’s infamous political
patronage system, Cardone’s son rose through the ranks, eventually just walking
into a principal position.
What would have been the ethical alternative to the
Cardone way?
A superintendent would ask her nephew to please apply
for a job in a different district to eliminate conflicts of interest and the
blatant display of nepotism.
The big time nepotism players of the past will not
move our schools forward.
