Man Turns Down Job As Head Of Arkansas' Education System
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Mississippi Superintendent of Education
Henry Johnson has turned down a job offer to head the public school
system in Arkansas.
Johnson confirmed yesterday that he telephoned Arkansas Governor
Mike Huckabee to say hes keeping his job.
Johnson has been Mississippis superintendent since August 2002.
He says he had been mulling over the job offer for about two
months. He would not reveal the salary he was offered, but said the
pay was not much more than the $234,000 he earns in
Mississippi.
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour saluted Johnson as an
"outstanding" superintendent in his State of the State speech
last night.
In September, President Bush nominated Ray Simon, Arkansas
education director for the US assistant secretary for elementary
and secondary education post.
