Fresno Unified expanding search for new superintendent

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Wednesday night, the Fresno Unified schoolhouse committee voted to intermission the interviewing of interior candidates to regenerate superintendent Bob Nelson to broaden the scope of the search.

It comes aft committee members criticized the process which lone produced interior candidates.

At the committee gathering Wednesday night, parents, students and assemblage members weighed successful connected the hunt process

The committee voted to halt the existent process and spell backmost to the drafting committee -- emphasizing much assemblage input and broadening the hunt to outer candidates.

The caller superintendent would commencement adjacent schoolhouse twelvemonth -- arsenic existent superintendent Bob Nelson volition measurement down from his relation this summer.

"There's a batch of concern. There's a batch of interest with parents, students, teachers, assemblage members that from the get this process should person been a nationwide search. It should beryllium afloat transparent," said Marisa Rodriguez, a teacher astatine Roosevelt High School.

While astir called for a wider search, immoderate argued the interior candidates are qualified.

"We conscionable privation diversity. We privation equality. We privation an equal, just ballot for the caller superintendent," said Yunah Vang, an Edison High School student.

Board President Susan Wittrup closed the nighttime by saying the committee appreciates the public's input and it volition beryllium considered successful the caller process for uncovering much candidates.

We expect to perceive much astir what that caller process mightiness look similar astatine adjacent week's committee meeting.

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