WCS Interviewing Internal Candidate For Superintendent
During Monday evening’s monthly Warsaw Community School Corporation’s regular board meeting Jennifer Tandy, WCS school board president, released a statement detailing the current status of the school corporation’s search for the next WCS superintendent. The search began after current WCS Superintendent Dr. Craig Hintz announced his departure in February effective June 30. (See related)
Tandy announced last month that the search for a new superintendent was the “primary focus of the board.” The board has contracted with BWP and Associates, an expert in superintendent searches, to find the corporation’s next leader. Tandy noted a timeline for accomplishing the search has been established and a community meeting was hosted to allow community input on the qualities and candidates for the search. (See related)
According to Tandy, the board is moving through the search with an internal candidate who has conducted a second interview for the position.
“The board will like to report we are continuing our superintendent search. We are continuing through the process with an internal candidate. We’ve conducted our second interview with this candidate in this process and we will be able to have an announcement soon. Thank you for being patient with the board and going through this process,” stated Tandy.
In other news, WCS will begin online ISTEP+ testing tomorrow, this will follow the numerous issues faced by ISTEP+ test vendor CTB/ McGraw-Hill. Hintz noted that WCS has thoroughly prepared for the test, stating that the school corporation’s IT department spent spring break ensuring each computer in the district was ready for testing.
Hintz noted that schools in Oklahoma have reported similar issues to last year’s ISTEP+ server issues. To attempt to avoid issues, WCS chose to begin testing on Tuesday instead of Monday.
Last year a total of 482,000 students completed the ISTEP examination with a total of 78,000 students online taking the exam when server issues caused delays. The repeated interruptions that ensued as a result of these issues were believed to have potentially negatively impacted thousands of students scores throughout the state. As a result, preliminary damages were sought from CTB/ McGraw-Hill. (See related)