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SALT LAKE CITY -- A state senator wants to require school superintendents to face retention elections, although they are not elected officials.
State Sen. Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City, wants the state's 41 superintendents to answer directly to the public if they want to keep their job. He is crafting a bill that would require superintendents to go through a retention election every four or six years after a school board has appointed them.
Davis told the Daily Herald he thinks this bill gives school boards a feeling of the support the locals have in their superintendent.
But various school board members are already speaking out against the proposal, saying the public is represented by school board members who are elected and the superintendent should not be subject to political agendas.
Davis says he didn't have a specific superintendent in mind as he started to work on the bill, and the idea came from a constituent.
