Interviews begin this week in Fayette County school superintendent search
FAYETTE COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) – The next step in the Fayette County School District’s search for a new superintendent comes this week when the first round of potential candidates are interviewed.
Monday night, Susanne Griffin and Ann Bailey, from the superintendent search firm of Greenwood/Asher and Associates, told the Board of Education the Superintendent Screening Committee met for four hours on Friday, April 23, 2021.
Prior to that meeting, each of the six screening committee members reviewed applicant materials including curriculum vitaes, resumes, and reference lists. During the meeting, the group identified a slate of candidates they would like to learn more about in a first round of interviews.
Everyone invited to interview has accepted. Interviews will take place on Thursday and Friday of this week, the board was told.
Griffin said the selected candidates are racially and culturally diverse, from a variety of backgrounds, with many different district-level experiences, including superintendent, chief academic officer, chief of schools, deputy superintendent, and chief diversity officer.
After the interviews, the screening committee will choose which candidates they would like to learn more about through reference checks. The search firm will provide that information on Friday, May 14, 2021, the board was told.
The board was not told how many candidates will be interviewed or other details.
Additional information about the search for the next Fayette County Public Schools Superintendent can be found at www.fcps.net/search.
Meanwhile, the board still is waiting on an attorney general’s opinion about possible conflict of interest about Board Chair Tyler Murphy’s election to the National Education Association’s board of directors.
In the interim, a former board attorney said no conflict exists.
General Counsel Shelley Chatfield updated the board on the question raised last week and shared that given an extended timeline for receiving a decision from the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office, she asked former board attorney Bob Chenoweth to render an opinion.
According to Chenoweth, there was “no conflict of interest or incompatibility constitutionally, statutorily, or under common law,” Chatfield told the board.
During the portion of the meeting for remarks by citizens, Murphy explained that the board has instituted a process to allow members of the public to sign up to speak in advance of regular school board meetings similar to that used by the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council.
Details on that process are available at http://www.fcps.net/PublicComment.
One member of the public addressed the board regarding vendors for graduation. Additionally, four members of the public submitted written comments. Their full submissions will be shared with the board members and included in the board meeting record, which is not the same as the board meeting minutes.
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