Another woman said the most important thing for her as a parent is that the superintendent values the role of every stakeholder in education. “So, teachers, parents, students, administrators, community agencies and businesses... everybody needs to be involved,” she said. “It’s frustrating to me in this district that we have a lot of people in the schools who say parents don’t want to be involved. And they’ll use this meeting as an example. There’s hardly anybody here.”
She said the turnout was poor because no letter went home to parents, and there was no information on the school website. She added that the meeting was publicized in an English language newspaper, but was not translated into Spanish. She also noted a superintendent needs to be involved in the community and be visible.
Another speaker thought the search process was too short. He suggested the board bring in someone to do the work of setting up the new district and then hire a superintendent. “I think that’s going to be more successful than what we’re trying to do now,” he added.
Dr. Condon told the gathering the basic timeline for finding and hiring a superintendent. They’ve already begun advertising the position on search websites, and will start advertising throughout California in 10 days.
They will do background checks in early May and then Dr. Condon will meet with the board to review all the applicants. He will recommend a limited number of applicants to be interviewed by the board. They will narrow the list down to two or three finalists, and a superintendent should be hired by the first meeting in June.
