Superintendent by Feb. eyed: School Board wants hire by then

Susan Troller:

The Madison School Board intends to hire its new superintendent of schools by early February 2008, so he or she can learn the ropes before veteran Superintendent Art Rainwater retires at the end of June.

Board President Arlene Silveira announced a working schedule for the superintendent search this week. The board has been meeting throughout the summer with a consulting firm and now has mapped out dates and action items for naming the new administrator.

"We're very comfortable with our consultants and with the process. Even so, I'm a little nervous about it," she said this morning. "This is likely to be the most important thing we do as a board, and we're taking it very seriously. Change is good, though, and it's an exciting process."

She said the process in Madison will include more public input than is typical in most communities looking for a new school superintendent.

"We'll have two general community forums on September 19 and 20, and there will probably be 20 focus groups with everyone from advocacy groups, to our philanthropic partners, to the business community and staff members. If we made it any broader, we'd just be inviting names out of the phone book," she laughed.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 30, 2007 1:21 PM
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