LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Clark County College District is nearer to hiring a superintendent after greater than a yr with out one.
The highest finalists for the job took half on Monday in a group discussion board at Rancho Excessive College. Candidates for CCSD’s superintendent job took questions for 3 hours from college students, mother and father, employees, and different members of the general public. The setting allowed the candidates to shake fingers and speak to folks one-on-one.
Jhone Ebert, Ben Shuldiner, and Jesse Welsh are the three finalists hoping to steer the nation’s fifth-largest college district.
CCSD has virtually 300,000 college students and 348 college buildings. Discovering a brand new superintendent has stretched right into a yr. The earlier boss, Dr. Jesus Jara was pressured to resign final yr in February.
Ebert is the present state superintendent of public instruction. She beforehand labored at CCSD and was promoted to a management function earlier than taking a job in New York. Ebert then moved again to Nevada to function state superintendent of faculties and has labored beneath each democratic and republican management.
“In the Clark County School District, our fourth-grade students are half a year behind in reading,” Ebert mentioned Monday. “We need to extend the school day. We need to extend the school year. We also need to make sure we’re very intentional with the resources that we have.”
CCSD internet hosting public discussion board with superintendent candidates
Shuldiner is the one one of many three candidates with none connections to CCSD. Shuldiner is the superintendent of the Lansing College District in Michigan and has been credited for turning that faculty system round. He beforehand served on the New York Metropolis Public College Board, which is the nation’s largest college district.
“I think the question that the community should always ask is how can you get the best person to be the superintendent who is going to support children, support staff, and support the community?” Shuldiner mentioned Monday.
Welsh is presently the chief govt officer of Nevada State Excessive College. He labored at CCSD for a number of years and was an assistant superintendent earlier than he left to Arizona, the place he was the superintendent of the Paradise Valley Unified College District.
“I’m constantly talking to people who are afraid to speak up about some of the things that have been going on, and I think it’s been very hard the last couple of years in the Clark County School District. And I think that starts at the top,” Welsh mentioned.
The three candidates will go earlier than the Clark County College District Board of Trustees on Tuesday for a Q-and-A with the 11 trustees. Every of the candidates will get questioned for 45 minutes.
The college board is scheduled to vote Thursday on a brand new superintendent.
