ON THE AGENDA: School Board to consider superintendent applicants

The board will attempt to narrow down a list of applicants to a handful of finalists.


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The Flagler County School Board will hold a special meeting this Tuesday, Feb. 25, to narrow down a list of superintendent candidates to a handful of finalists.

Aside from that meeting, there are no other School Board meetings, County Commission meetings or Palm Coast City Council meetings this week.

Flagler County School Board special meeting: 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25

Location: Government Services Building 2, third floor meeting room, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Bunnell.
Full agenda/backup: Not posted, but information about the search process, including board meeting dates and application materials, is available HERE, and the search process schedule is viewable HERE.
Livestream: HERE.

The School Board's special meeting to select finalists for the superintendent position will be held at 9 a.m. in the third floor training room at the Government Services Building on State Road 100. 

This will be the first time the School Board meets to discuss applicants. 

The board at its most recent meeting accepted from a citizen advisory committee a nine-person shortlist of candidates for the superintendent position. They are: Vernon Orndorff, a former Flagler Schools assistant superintendent who is now a superintendent in Texas; Cathy Mittelstadt, a deputy superintendent in St. Johns County; Earl Johnson, Flagler Schools' executive director of leadership development; Colleen Conklin, the current Flagler County School Board member and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University assistant professor who has stepped away from the board in order to apply for the superintendent position; and Janet Womack, an educational consultant in Texas and former superintendent of a district in Alabama.

The county's ESE Parent Advisory Panel has put forward a different list of recommendations

A total of 35 applicants have applied, and three withdrew their applications. 

 

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