Sunday, September 28, 2008
COLUMBUS (AP) — A state Board of Education subcommittee plans to interview five finalists for the open state superintendent position today and Monday.
The finalists are Patricia Brenneman, superintendent of the Cincinnati-area Oak Hills schools; Catherine Cross Maple, deputy secretary of education of the New Mexico department of education; Deborah Delisle, superintendent of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights schools; Donna Durno, executive director of the Allegheny Intermediate Unit in Pittsburgh; and, Michael Johnson, superintendent of the Bexley schools in central Ohio.
Current state superintendent Susan Tave Zelman leaves Oct. 31 after nine years.
Zelman announced in May that she would resign amid a plan by Gov. Ted Strickland to replace her with an education chief accountable to him instead of the state board