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Norfolk Public Schools board finalizes search timeline, debates experience and background‑check steps

Norfolk Public Schools Board of Education · October 13, 2025
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Summary

Consultants and the school board set a hiring timeline with advertising to close early January, debated whether a doctorate and years of experience should be preferred or required, and clarified background‑check steps including district I‑9 verification and 1Source screening.

Norfolk Public Schools’ board and search consultants outlined a schedule and procedures for hiring a permanent superintendent, agreeing on an advertising and review timeline that would close applications in early January and aim for finalist interviews in late January.

Consultant Sherry Becker told the board the search firm will “send out the full employment packet” after finalists are chosen and said the firm will run 1Source background checks before finalists are interviewed. Becker added, “the I‑9 information…that’s usually done at the district level,”…

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