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Marion County board reviews HYA Phase I search results, agrees to Dec. 18 work session to refine job description
Summary
Consultants HYA presented a leadership profile and survey from 2,328 participants outlining district strengths and challenges and recommended desired characteristics for the next superintendent; the board accepted the characteristics with a change to remove a compensation line and scheduled a Dec. 18 work session to finalize the job description and review PM2 test data.
The Marion County School Board on Dec. 1 reviewed Phase I findings from its superintendent search consultants HYA and agreed to reconvene Dec. 18 to finalize a superintendent job description and review student PM2 test data before deciding whether to proceed with a national search.
HYA presented three documents — a 37-page leadership profile (with an eight-page executive summary), survey results and a two-page summary of desired superintendent characteristics. Stacy, a senior HYA consultant, summarized the district's strengths: "First and foremost, as a strength of the district ... was the strong community culture," and cited dedicated staff, improving leadership visibility and growing CTE and IB/Cambridge programs.
HYA reported broad participation in the process, saying 276 people took part in interviews or focus groups and 2,052 completed the…
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