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Board directs staff to prepare RFP for superintendent search; will discuss recommendation Nov. 4
Summary
Members debated timing, scope and whether to extend Interim Superintendent Dr. Patton; the board directed staff to prepare a request for proposals and bring an RFP-start recommendation to the Nov. 4 meeting.
The Alachua County School Board discussed the timeline and scope of a superintendent search during its Oct. 15 workshop and directed staff to prepare a recommendation to begin a search process via request for proposals (RFP).
The options: board members weighed three questions — state versus national search, whether to use the Florida School Boards Association (FSBA) or run an RFP for other search firms, and the search timeline. "One of them is whether we want it to be a state search or a national search," the chair said at the start of the item.
Interim superintendent and timing: Dr. Patton (Interim…
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