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Red Clay School Dist. narrows its search for new superintendent

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The Red Clay Consolidated School District is moving forward in its search for a new superintendent.

The school board has settled on two finalists.

 

It held the first round of closed candidate interviews Monday night and will hold a second round next week.

The two candidates are Hugh Broomall— deputy superintendent of the Red Clay School District— and Dorrell Green— director of the Delaware Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement, and a former assistant superintendent in the Brandywine School District.

According to Red Clay officials, candidates were identified through a review of applications by University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration.

Finalists will give a public presentation on Feb. 11 at Cab Calloway School of the Arts. The board plans to select a superintendent on Feb.13.

Former Red Clay Superintendent Merv Daugherty left for another position in October. Chief Financial Officer Jill Floore has served as Interim Superintendent since then.

Sophia Schmidt is a Delaware native. She comes to Delaware Public Media from NPR’s Weekend Edition in Washington, DC, where she produced arts, politics, science and culture interviews. She previously wrote about education and environment for The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, MA. She graduated from Williams College, where she studied environmental policy and biology, and covered environmental events and local renewable energy for the college paper.