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Board agrees on superintendent qualities and search timelime

By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com
Published: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:53 PM CDT
The No. 1 quality the Grand Island school board wants in a new superintendent is a person who is student-focused.

Qualities Nos. 2 through 5 are a person who is visionary; a person who is honest, moral and ethical; a good communicator; and a person who has the ability to get things done.

Randy Nelson and Tom Jacobson of the search firm McPherson & Jacobson helped board members cull those top five qualities from a starting list of 44 attributes they want in their next superintendent.


Finishing just outside the top five are a superintendent with experience dealing with poverty and ethnic minority students in a district where 60 percent of students receive free or reduced-price lunch, 30 percent are English language learners, and 13 percent are highly mobile.

The district's ethnic breakdown is 51 percent white, 43 percent Hispanic, 3 percent black, 2 percent Asian and 1 percent Native American.

Also finishing just outside the top five is a desire for a politically savvy superintendent for a district that joined with four others in suing the state of Nebraska to get a state aid formula better suited for a district with Grand Island's demographics.  Full Story

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