School board to meet next week to review superintedent applications
The Guilford County Board of Education will meet twice next week to narrow down the list of candidates for the superintendent position, Deena Hayes told me today. I'm assuming those meetings will take place on July 9 and 10 as I received special meeting notices for those dates today.
Hayes said the board still hopes to have someone in place by the start of school. Just in case you missed the announcement last week, Ray and Associates received 135 applications from 33 states, including North Carolina. Thirty-one people passed through the screening procedures and eight made the semi-finalist list (although the board plans to review all 31 applications).
The semi-finalists are from Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
I'll update as I get more information.
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Once again the school board proves that they do not understand their responsibilities of board governance. They hire a professional head hunter, they provide the head hunter with a list of criteria and qualifications for the job, then after the head hunter screens the applicants and cuts to 8 recommended candidates, board members have to review every applicant personally itself. Why did they hire the head hunter to do? Gather applications?
These people do not understand how a candidate search is to be conducted. The correct way is to provide candidate criteria, requirements, and needed qualifications, then get out of the way and let the professionals do their work But, no, the board does not trust the people they hired to do the job right. This is just another example of how hard they make it for a superintendent to do his/her job. Any new candidate should take note of this so that they are not surprised if they "win" the job and they are second-guessed at every turn. Pitiful.
Posted on July 5, 2008 1:53 PM