By Julie Hubbard, The Tennessean
Jesse Register’s Tuesday started with handling power outages at 10 schools and ended with applauding Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School’s graduates.
And, in between, he attended a school board meeting in which members voted on a four-year extension to his contract as Metro Nashville Public Schools’ top administrator.
Register, 64, routinely works 10-hour days – or longer – but rarely mentions them. The former Hamilton County Schools superintendent doesn’t talk much about his work on the Tennessee Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee, responsible for creating the method to judge teacher performance statewide, or how he flew to Toronto this month to tour a science-focused high school and bring ideas home.
But he’s impressed school board members enough to renew his contract this month instead of waiting until its June 2012 expiration, in spite of warnings from a few city councilmen that they should wait for the district’s latest test scores to come out.