Public won’t meet Warren superintendent finalists

WARREN

The Warren Board of Education has narrowed its focus from 29 candidates for superintendent to six — five of them having a doctoral degree and all of them being from outside of the Mahoning Valley.

The candidates include one each who are employed by the city school districts in Akron, Cleveland and Marietta. Two others are employed as educational consultants in the Detroit area, and one is dean of academic affairs for Bryant & Stratton College in Cleveland.

The board of education will conduct interviews with three of the candidates at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The board will interview the three others at 9 a.m. Friday. The interviews will be conducted during private sessions.

Patty Limperos, a member of the Warren school board, said the board considered having public meetings with the superintendent finalists to allow the public to meet them and ask questions but “yielded to the advice of the OSBA” and decided against it.

Instead, the board has invited six members of the public, representing six community organizations, to participate in the second set of interviews, to be conducted May 27. At that point, there will be three finalists left.

One representative each from the following groups will participate in the interviews: the Warren teacher’s union, the Trumbull County Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, the Northeast Ohio Multicultural Arts Committee, the Financial Advisory Committee of the Warren Board of Education, the mayor’s office, and the Warren citywide parent-teacher organization.

Each of those groups will choose who the representative will be, Limperos said.

Read more in Wednesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com