Former jewelry store regional director would put principals, superintendent in driver’s seat

Marcy Kittinger has two radical ideas.

The stay-at-home-mother-turned-candidate — and former director of stores for Robinsons-May — wants to shift power from the school board to the Hesperia Unified School District’s administrators and she believes she knows of a source of revenue to help with the district’s financial woes.

“I really feel that the school board should be an advisory committee,” Kittinger said Tuesday. “They should be taking everything in, they should be looking at it, they should be getting input, and then they should be saying to the superintendent ‘these are our recommendations. Are you on board with this? Or not? And how do we proceed from there?’”

That’s a reversal of what the board members elected four years ago — including incumbents Hardy Black and Lee Rogers, both of whom are seeking reelection — set out to accomplish. Back then, the winning candidates explicitly wanted the school board not to be following the lead of what the superintendent and assistant superintendents brought before them.

“I really feel that the school board has taken on the role of running the district, and I really don’t feel that’s their job,” she said. “They need to put that back into the hands of the superintendent, the great principals that are out there, and teachers, and classified staff — all of the people who really make a difference.”

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