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Tuesday, August 08, 2017
OUSD moves to find Interim Superintendent
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OUSD Special Meeting Thursday
OUSD moves to find Interim Superintendent
After
making his retirement announcement public three months ago in May 2017, OUSD Superintendent
Mike Christensen sent a final goodbye email to the OUSD family at the end of his last day, Wednesday August 2, 2017. The three paragraph email was a thank you to
the employees of OUSD and simply signed "Mike".
In
the email Christensen stated his great confidence in OUSD's top administrators in the Superintendent's
Cabinet and announced that Deputy Superintendent Dr. Hansen would be the Acting Superintendent as the OUSD Board conducts
a search for an Interim Superintendent.
The
search for that Interim Superintendent is on the OUSD Board of Education Special
Meeting Agenda for this Thursday August 10, 2017. Closed Session Item 4A is for "Consideration of Appointment of
Interim Superintendent".
At
the Thursday July 27th the OUSD Board of
Education received names from McPherson
& Jacobson, the school executive recruitment firm chosen to led
the search for a new OUSD Superintendent. According to on-line documents, McPherson & Jacobson does not
"recruit" for Interim Superintendents. The firm uses an internal list
of candidates who will provide interim superintendent services. The
four names provided to the OUSD Board by McPherson
& Jacobson are all retired former top school administrators and
do not appear to be up for consideration for the permanent OUSD Superintendent position:
Dr. Carmella Franco- The 67 year old is currently employed as a headhunter for the school executive search firm Hazard,Young, Attea & Associates. She has served as Superintendent of Whittier City School District for 12 years and as Interim Superintendent for both
Dr. Suzette D. Lovely- At 59 years old she is the youngest of the four and is currently a consultant to numerous entities including one of OUSD's legal firms- Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Rudd, Romo. Her numerous administration positions include serving as the Superintendent of Carlsbad Unified School District for four years and acting Superintendent of Capistrano Unified School District.
Dr. Roberta Mahler- The 73 year old Villa Park resident is currently a part-time employee of the Orange County Department of Education. She served for 13 months as an Interim Superintendent for Capistrano Unified and 12 months as Interim Superintendent of
Dr. Mary Willis - The 66 year old is currently listed as operating two consultant firms LBHI Consulting and Management Services and MWillis Inc., Educational Consultant Services. According to her Linked-In page, she started her consultant business while employed as Assistant Superintendent of Montebello Unified in 2010. She also serviced as Interim Superintendent for
The July 27th OUSD Agenda stated that an OUSD Special Board Meeting will be held at a later date for the OUSD Board to interview "potential candidates". The August 10th Closed Session begins at 5:30 pm with the Open Session beginning at 7:00pm.
Item
10 A states Dr. Thomas Jacobson of McPherson & Jacobson will be at the OUSD Board to receive input from
the OUSD Board on the process for the OUSD Superintendent search.
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING Thursday August 10, 2017
CLOSED SESSION NOTE Time change 5:30 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00
pm
For more information call the OUSD
Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
For budgeting questions call Business Services at
714-628-4015
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