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Public meetings scheduled for superintendent search feedback

Submitted by KeungHui on 07/08/2010 - 16:18

Tags: WakeEd | Heidrick & Struggles | superintendent search

The dates and times have been scheduled for two public meetings in which you can share what traits you want to see in the next Wake County schools superintendent.

The meetings will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday in the school board meeting room, 3600 Wake Forest Road in Raleigh. The search firm of Heidrick & Struggles will run the meetings and use the feedback to help develop the criteria that the school board will use for selecting a superintendent.

"We want to provide an opportunity for members of the general public to participate in a dialogue regarding the qualities and qualifications they believe are necessary to have in our next Superintendent," said Debra Goldman, chairwoman of school board's Superintendent Selection Committee, in a press release. "It's important that we gather a variety of points of view as we develop the criteria we will use in selecting the next Superintendent of our school system."

In addition to the public meetings, Heidrick will hold private meetings with groups such as the leaders of the chambers of commerce, the Wake County chapter of the N.C. Association of Educators, the Wake County PTA Council, the Wake Education Partnership and the Civitas Institute.

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Comments

5 days notice right before

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 18:31 — shank56

5 days notice right before the weekend. Right on the number for public notice?

This isn't a board meeting

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 19:09 — KeungHui (author)

This isn't a board meeting so the public notices rules aren't a legal issue. Even if it was a board meeting, they need 48 hours notice for a special meeting.

Keung, were any meetings

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 19:54 — CaryCurmudgeon

Keung, were any meetings held to gather public input before they made a decision to give Burns the job?

These meetings are standard.

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 20:26 — KeungHui (author)

These meetings are standard. They were used before hiring Burns and McNeal. These are meetings heard early in the process to help develop the traints for the next supt. I may still have somewhere the thick stacks of public comments from those meetings.