Schools chief list trimmed to four
Monday, May 11, 1998BY DANA DiFILIPPO
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Board of Education members have whittled to four the number of candidates they're considering to replace retiring Superintendent J. Michael Brandt.
Of 10 candidates, the finalists are:
Anthony Alvarado, superintendent of Community School District Two, New York City Public Schools.
He resigned in 1984 as head of the district after he was accused of financial improprieties. Since then, he has climbed back to national prominence and is known for solving urban schools' problems. He lost a bid for Boston's superintendent job in 1995.
Steven Adamowski, associate secretary of education, Delaware State Department of Education.
Mr. Adamowski, an education reform specialist with teaching and administrative experience in St. Louis, Norwich, Conn., and Chatham, N.J., started at his Delaware post in 1996.
Michael Strembitsky, Rosa Blackwell and Kathleen Ware. Under this option, the three would work together to head the district. Ms. Blackwell and Ms. Ware are CPS assistant superintendents. Mr. Strembitsky is a senior fellow at the National Center for Education and the Economy in Rochester, N.Y. He was superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools in Edmonton, Alberta, for 22 years.
Franklin Till, deputy superintendent, San Diego Unified School District. He has worked in the 127,000-student district since 1970 as a teacher, principal and administrator. He also has taught at San Diego State University.
Board members plan to visit the candidates' home districts, conduct background checks and check references this week. They aim to hire by the end of May.
"We feel confident we'll have an outstanding candidate in place," board president Arthur Hull said.
But while board members may be pleased, some community members aren't. The NAACP plans to picket outside tonight's school board meeting at the district's Mount Auburn headquarters.
"Three people trying to be a superintendent is just unworkable," said Milton Hinton, president of the NAACP-Cincinnati branch. The NAACP also wanted to participate in the superintendent search, Dr. Hinton said. Although board members held public meetings for residents to voice their desired qualities in a new superintendent, they said they couldn't give "special-interest groups" a bigger role.
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