Superintendents may not need teaching experience

LINCOLN – School superintendents would no longer be required to have two years of classroom experience if the Education Committee passes a bill it heard Tuesday.

Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha presented this bill (LB539) that would allow potential superintendent candidates to be hired without any teaching experience. Nobody else testified in favor of the bill, and three testified against it.

“A superintendent is not a manager. A superintendent is not a teacher. A superintendent is not a mentor,” Chambers said. “A superintendent is the one who’s going to run this operation.”

Chambers added that i...