Local Leaders Intensify Superintendent Search Nye Stresses Relationship
Trampling the Terrapins Led by its captains, the women's hoops; THE CHRONICLE team rallied Sunday to down Maryland MONDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1997 ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA Local leaders intensify superintendent search By RICHARD RUBIN ly serves as interim superinten After a six-month search for a dent. permanent superintendent for In the first few phases ofthe the Durham Public Schools, sev search, the board was aided by eral members of the Durham Sockwell and Associates, a Char Board of Education this week lotte-based consulting firm. will travel to the current school Susan Jernigan, the consultant district of each ofthe three final for Sockwell and Associates in ists in order to gain firsthand charge of the Durham search, knowledge of each candidate's said the firm began the search ability. by meeting with board mem Two of the candidates— bers as well as community mem Daniel Cockman, superinten bers, teachers and parents to de dent of Thomasville City termine the qualities in a Schools, and Ann Denlinger, su superintendent most valued by perintendent of Wilson County those involved with Durham schools—are currently serving schools. as educational leaders in North Jernigan and Meyers said Carolina, while the third candi the desired characteristics in date, James Williams, is super clude a track record of improved intendent of Dayton Public student performance, success in Schools in Ohio. promoting safe and orderly Kathiyn Meyers, chair of the schools and an educational phi board, emphasized the impor losophy that favors site-based tance of seeing firsthand the im management—the practice of pact each candidate has had in a having teachers and principals, his or her school district.
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