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School board hears South Carolina School Boards Association outline for superintendent search, cost $18,000 base
Summary
Scott Price of the South Carolina School Boards Association presented a proposed 4–6 month superintendent search process that includes community surveys, focus groups, confidentiality until finalists are named, and a base fee of $18,000 plus additional administrative charges; board members asked about applicant geography and retention estimates.
Scott Price, executive director of the South Carolina School Boards Association, told the Chesterfield County School Board that a typical superintendent search runs about four to six months and emphasized the board controls the search design.
"It's your search," Price said, describing a process that includes electronic surveys and focus groups to gather community input, preliminary screening of applicants, and a multi-night interview schedule that would bring roughly nine semifinalists before the board and reduce them to three finalists. Price said the base fee in…
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