The Cincinnati Board of Education wants the community to play a major role in the selection of the next Superintendent for Cincinnati Public Schools.
The community will be involved in several aspects of the Board-designed Superintendent selection process.
There will be widespread engagement opportunities to gather input on the qualities and experience desired in the next leader for the more than 34,000-student district. These opportunities include meetings with neighborhood groups, community organizations and CPS schools, and a survey (see link on right).
A Community Advisory Group also will be appointed to review the community’s input and approve the description of the skills, qualifications and experience sought in CPS superintendent candidates, which will be used in the recruiting process.
In a first for the district, the Board will ask the advisory group to determine which of the superintendent candidates the Board should proceed to interview. Members of this group, to be appointed by March 31, will include representatives of the faith-based community; parents and families; Labor Council; neighborhood groups; civil rights organizations; city of Cincinnati/other municipalities in the district; service organizations; business groups; and higher education.
The goal is to have a new superintendent in place by August 1. Current Superintendent Rosa Blackwell announced last fall that she would retire at the end of her contract, which concludes July 31.