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Board president: Candidate names will be public record
Applicants interested in being Springfield City Schools next superintendent or high school campus director will be told their names will be subject to public record, said board President Donna Picklesimer.
The district had been considering a search strategy that would keep candidates’ names private unless they were part of the slate of applicants to be interviewed by the board.
Board members decided in a meeting with search firm officials this morning to advice applicants that their application materials would be “considered public records and subject to public records request,” said Picklesimer.
“We’re still very concerned about the impact that’s going to have on the candidate pool,” she said.
The board’s understanding of public records law led them to the decision, she said.
“I don’t think that the law was written with the intention to make it more difficult to have good candidates but at this time we just felt like… this was an appropriate response to the concern that’s been raised,” she said.
The firm, BWP & Associates, Inc., was in town this week collecting information from the community to develop a wish list of sorts for the new superintendent and the Springfield High School campus director.
Both positions are currently filled by interim candidates. The board aims to have permanent hires in place for the 2009-10 school year.
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