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School Board Impressed with first set of 5 Superintendent Candidates;
Posted on Monday, March 18 @ 10:48:03 EST by jfbailey
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WPCNR Morning Edition, by John F. Bailey, 3/18/02, 11:00 AM EST: The President of the Board of Education reported to WPCNR Monday that Saturday’s opening round of talks with candidates for the vacant Superintendent of Schools position went “very well.” Tonight, the public is invited to the first presentation of the 2002-03 school budget at Education House at 8 PM.
Hazard, Young and Attea, the superintendent research consultants, said they would deliver between 3 and 6 candidates for White Plains to consider and they have done that.
Donna McLaughlin, President of the Board, delivered a report on the first round of superintendent interviews which commenced Saturday morning in Rye Brook, at a secluded local hotel.
Two Sessions.
McLaughlin said the full board interviewed the first set of candidates for two hours each Saturday morning, and are planning to bring in another set of candidates Wednesday evening.
McLaughlin described the interviews as having gone “very well, I’m very excited. We still have more to go, John. We only did the first set, we have another set coming up. It’s hard to say until I get the whole picture.”
WPCNR asked if she was impressed with the slate, her comment: “So far.”
Screening Committee Will Quiz 2 or 3 Finalists
McLaughlin disclosed that five candidates are being interviewed, with the second set coming in Wednesday evening: “We’re going to weed them down to two or three, then bring them back in in a couple of weeks. At that time we’re going to bring in another committee to join us (in the finalist interviews).”
McLaughlin said this screening committee would be made up of the Presidents of the 3 unions (White Plains Teachers Association, Civil Service Employees Association, and Administrators and Supervisors Association), a citizen at large, a representative from Centro-Hispano, and a PTA Co-President.
They’re coming to White Plains from all over.
McLaughlin said the candidates were not exclusively from the Northeast, but “from all over. We asked all kinds of questions, tried to cover the gamut.”
She said she was impressed with the answers she got: “We have to interview everybody, and weed it down, based on their answers.”
When asked what role salary would play in this, McLaughlin said, “We haven’t discussed it. Our number one criteria is the best candidate for White Plains. That’s our criteria.”
In other Board activity…
The Board of Education will hold its first public hearing on the 2002-03 School Budget tonight at Education House at 8 PM. The budget is expected to decline slightly from its last level which was over $127MM with an increase the same as last year, 7.1%.
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