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Olentangy schools and the secret superintendent search
Last week, I got an email from Columbus Dispatch reporter Randy Ludlow about Olentangy Local Schools’ confidential search and how it might compare to what Springfield is investigating.
Officials there are operating under the same philosophy as Springfield officials - that confidentiality will improve the candidate pool - the Dispatch reports.
By all accounts, Springfield board members are not interested in going as far with the confidentiality as Olentangy has. Board President Donna Picklesimer and search firm Director Ron Barnes have said the board is looking to keep candidates confidential only until they are selected to be interviewed. Once they are invited for an interview, their names would be made public.
Olentangy kept the first round of interviews confidential and has just now released the names of its two finalists.
Olentangy looks to be taking a page out of Cincinnati Public Schools’ playbook a few years ago. Basically, in both cases, the searches were kept a secret by eliminating the paper trail; there were no formal applications, candidates took their resumes back from board members after initial interviews and there were no notes kept from the screening interviews, at least none with names (Cincinnati’s search firm is reported to have used code names for their notes, instead of the actual candidates’ surnames).
Ludlow’s Right to Know blog does a great job of watching this and other public records issues for anyone interested in following.
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