She spoke to two large groups of agency employees, met with numerous individual employees and announced the appointment of two veteran educators to top agency positions. Tenenbaum was sworn in Wednesday as South Carolina's 15 th State Superintendent of Education, and Thursday was her first full day on the job. In her first meeting with Department of Education employees, Tenenbaum thanked them for their years of service to the children of South Carolina and told them she respected the work they had done. Tenenbaum said it would be difficult to imagine a more exciting time to become State Superintendent of Education, citing strong public support for improving public schools. The general public has extremely high expectations, and we are going to have to deliver.
Nothing is carved in stone.
We are all in this together. Her first remarks to Education Department staff were delivered in the same friendly, informal style that characterized her campaign for South Carolina's highest education office. I don't care what your position is in this agency. Please, just call me Inez. I can't think of a more committed group of people than our educators.