Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The candidates will be at Attleboro High School next week on Monday and Tuesday.
Attleboro School Committee interviews of the two finalists for the superintendent post will take place this week, and next week the public will get its opportunity to ask some questions. Committee Chair Mike Tyler announced Monday the candidates will introduce themselves and take questions at Attleboro High School's mini-auditorium next Monday (Kenneth Sheehan of West Warwick) and Tuesday (Anthony Azar of New Bedford) from 4:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. Residents will be asked to write their questions on index cards and school committee members will select a few to be asked to the finalists. Sheehan and Azar will spend the day in Attleboro prior to the public forums, meeting with school, city and student leaders as well as touring campuses. Their …
Saturday, March 2, 2013
The school committee will interview the candidates Wednesday and Thursday in front of the public.
Attleboro school district stakeholders and others interested in what happens with the local education system will have their first opportunity to hear from the two finalists for the superintendent job this coming Wednesday and Thursday. School Committee members will interview Anthony Azar and Kenneth Sheehan. Anybody can attend the interviews and they will be televised on DoubleACS. The schedule provided to Attleboro Patch by school committee chair Mike Tyler calls for Azar to be interviewed Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Sheehan to be questioned Thursday at 7 p.m. The interviews will take place in Attleboro High School's Room 178E. The finalists will also visit the school district from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 11 (Sheehan) and March 12 (Azar). …
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
A tentative timeline includes public interviews next week and an appointment the third week of March.
The the school district head in West Warwick, R.I. and an administrator in the New Bedford Public Schools are the finalists to be Attleboro's next school district superintendent. The search committee assigned to narrowing the field of candidates announced the finalists —Kenneth Sheehan of West Warwick and Anthony Azar of New Bedford—Monday at the school committee meeting. School Committee Chair Mike Tyler said the candidates could be interviewed as soon as next week. He projected an appointment would be made the third week of March. This timeline is tentative, but Tyler said the district is two weeks ahead of its previous schedule. He said there is an urgency to make an appointment because the candidates may have applied for other jobs …
Monday, February 4, 2013
The Superintendent Search Committee is expected to reduce the number of candidates this week.
The Attleboro school district received 25 applications from people wanting to be the district's next superintendent, School Committee Chair Mike Tyler told Attleboro Patch Monday. The application deadline was Friday. "I am very encouraged by the large pool of candidates," Tyler said. "I thank all of those who applied." The nine-member Superintendent Search Committee, which is chaired by former Attleboro school administrator Ron Struminski, is expected to select semifinal candidates at its meeting Tuesday. Closed-door interviews with those candidates are expected to take place next Monday. Tyler said the search committee would present a list of three to five finalists (possibly more) to the school committee later this month. After …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Chair Mike Tyler plans to speak tonight about "unacceptable" events that occurred at the Monday meeting he did not attend. The vice chair, who ran the Monday meeting, disagrees with his analysis.
Attleboro residents have a chance to find out tonight what was learned through recent focus groups on the search for a school district superintendent. They also may be able to find out what School Committe Chair Mike Tyler believes should and should not happen at committee meetings. Tyler told Attleboro Patch earlier this week he was bothered by how the meeting on Monday was run in his absence by Vice Chair Brenda Furtado. Among the incidents he did not care for were comments made during open forum by school district parent Jen Crowder that included criticisms of Committee member David Murphy and Superintendent Pia Durkin (look for more information about Crowder's complaint on Patch later this week). Let Patch save you time. Get great …
Jim Stors
4:33 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Bill, no argument that it would, of course, be better to have the opportunity to ask the question yourself, as I stated in my response to Kendelle. I also agree with both of you that this scheduled time is a bit early for most working parents. My suggestion to Kendelle was just an option so she could, at the least, get a response to the questions she has. I am of the opinion that the elected … more ›