Superintendent’s Issue Back Before Longview School Board

LONGVIEW – The Longview School Board has scheduled a special meeting this evening at 6:30. The meeting is on the hiring of a school superintendent. According to the meeting agenda, after the meeting starts, school trustees will go into a closed session on the superintendent’s vacancy. The board will then reconvene in open session to take action on the vacancy. The school board had previously named Horace Williams as the district’s lone superintendent finalist.

Controversy began after an initial search narrowed the candidates down to Williams, who is the district’s Assistant Superintendent. The Longview News-Journal previously reported school board negotiations first stalled over Williams’ salary demands. Since Williams’ apparent appointment was made public, though, questions have been raised over his history. That most recently included filed grievances, questionable employee hiring, extensive travel logs and financial deficits at Cedar Hill schools, the Dallas-area district he previously served as superintendent.