Fresno Unified board members calling for expanded search for new superintendent

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Several members of the Fresno Unified School Board are calling connected the territory to grow their hunt for a caller superintendent.

School Board President Susan Wittrup is holding a property league astatine 9 americium Tuesday astatine the territory gathering to impulse the territory to see some interior and outer candidates.

Wittrup says she wants to grow the hunt to "ensure the champion for Fresno's children."

This comes arsenic the committee is acceptable to interrogation interior applicants this week.

On Friday, Board Member Keshia Thomas defended their existent hiring process, saying she heard from radical successful the Edison portion that parents privation idiosyncratic that understands Fresno.

Community members, including Fresno City Council Vice President Mike Karbassi and metropolis assembly subordinate Miguel Arias, volition besides beryllium speaking astatine the event.

Fresno Unified is the third-largest schoolhouse territory successful the authorities of California.