Let's take a look now at Ann Clark, one of the three finalists for Wake County schools superintendent.
Clark is the deputy superintendent for the Charlotte-Mekcklenburg school system. Although she's the only finalist who doesn't have superintendent experience, she is the no. 2 person in the 141,000-student district that's comparable to Wake in size.
"She has a lot of experience even though she’s never been a superintendent," said Wake school board chairman Keith Sutton.
For now, it looks like Judy Peppler will not be leaving her job as the Wake County school system's chief transformation officer.
The Reno Gazette-Journal is reporting that this morning the Washoe County school system's board of trustees named Pedro Martinez as the new superintendent. Peppler was one of five finalists for the job of running the 62,000-student district in Nevada.
The wild card here is that Martinez, the deputy superintendent of Clark County schools in Nevada, is also a finalist for superintendent of Philadelphia schools. Martinez faced scrutiny in Washoe after media reports had him saying he'd prefer the job with the much larger Philadelphia schools, which have 146,000 students.
During her interview on Wednesday, Peppler told the Washoe board of trustees that she considers herself to be a West Coast person and would like to return to that part of the country. Before attending the Broad Superintendents Academy and coming to Wake, Peppler was the state president of Qwest Communications in Oregon.
You can watch Judy Peppler, the Wake County school system's chief transformation officer, as she makes her bid to become superintendent of Washoe County schools in Nevada.
Click here to view the rest of the live interview with Washoe County's school board. Peppler will also speak at a town hall forum tonight. The four other finalists are following the same process.
It's noticeably different to how Wake has handed superintendent searches over the past decade. The last three superintendent searches have been secret with no one other than the person hired as superintendent being named publicly.
It hasn't been since Jim Surratt was hired in 1995 that Wake publicly named the finalists and brought them in to meet with the public before the vote took place.
Another one of Wake County Superintendent Tony Tata's top administrators may be leaving for another job.
The Washoe County school system announced today that Judy Peppler, Wake's chief transformation officer and chief of staff, is one of five finalists for the superintendent's position. Located in Nevada, Washoe has 62,000 students.
The Wake school board hired Peppler in September. Like Tata, Peppler is a non-educator who received training at the Broad Superintendents Academy.
Peppler was brought in to oversee the newly created Office of Transformation, which has overseen the controlled-choice student assignment plan that looks to be on the way out. To save money after Terri Cobb left, Peppler was also given the job of chief of staff.
