On Sunday, Rhonda Corr was praying and blaming her board members for slowing the process.

Corr, who was on her way to church to “pray for resolving the issue,” said the documented struggles of the district and Dayton Education Association negotiations were heavy burdens to bear….

“I’m going to be doing some cold-calling to my board members to see how much they’ll support me in what I want to propose,” Corr said.

Source: Dayton Public Schools head says deal ‘could get done’

This morning, she was blaming her staff- specifically, board attorney Jyllian Bradshaw for the protracted negotiations.

Corr said members of her own negotiating team were against the switch to a two-year contract proposal, but she said she overruled them as lead negotiator, in an effort to get a deal done.“

“The former negotiating team (led by district attorney Jyllian Bradshaw) had five and a half months, and no movement was made,” Corr said. “The superintendent was called in and did it in nine days.”

Source: Dayton teachers ratify 2-year deal

Since this board brought Rhonda Corr on as superintendent, the district has moved from one crisis to another. The amount of chaos is exponential compared to anything the district has ever seen.

But, lets stick to the facts: The board hires and fires the superintendent, the treasurer, the auditor. The attorney is 50/50 split.

Rhonda, if she was the leader she thinks she is- should have been able to tell that her negotiating team wasn’t doing their job well before the final hour. Blaming Bradshaw is nothing but a hit and run. If you are wondering why Dr. Markay Winston, Corr’s handpicked senior leadership left– it was because she was tired of getting hit by Corr’s bus.

The no confidence vote by 800 plus teachers in both Corr and the Board is a good indication of how bad things have been. That Corr is taking credit for something that should have been done months ago, before she lost 100 teachers, is grounds for termination of her contract for cause. And the word is, that Treasurer Hiwot Abraha was the one who refused to certify the contract for 3 years because of her fiscal forecast- not because of anything Rhonda did.

This district will remain in chaos until a new board majority takes office in January, or earlier if anyone has any common sense.

The real question is, if someone polled this board, would they still publicly back their choice of Rhonda Corr? Is it time to replace her, as a token of consolation to the union who didn’t break the law by discussing the confidential negotiations a day before the final session? Can anyone in this district ever admit they made a mistake?

In the last year- the only person I’ve seen admit to being wrong, was Jyllian Bradshaw, when I called her a liar in a board meeting about the RFQ process.

Unfortunately, she’s the one who got run over by the bus today.