Santa Ana : 2 Committees to Help Pick Superintendent
The Santa Ana Unified School District has formed two committees to help the Board of Education screen candidates for the district’s top administrative post.
Board members will meet with the two committees at 5 p.m. Sept. 13 to discuss criteria for the new superintendent.
A 12-member community liaison committee will interview finalists and report to the board.
Serving on that committee will be Colleen Coombs of the Parent Teacher Assn.; Mark Perew of the community advisory committee; Edmundo Cardenas of the bilingual advisory committee; Frank Castillo of Los Amigos; Lien Bui, Asian community representative; Linda Frierson of Effective Black Parenting; Julie Alexander from the Assn. of Mexican-American Educators; Andy Saavedra of the Orange County Community Organization; Gladys Hall-Kessler, president of the Santa Ana teachers’ association; Carolyn Van Herk, classified employees’ association president, and Freda Odum of the district’s administrators’ association.
A separate committee will be interviewing candidates to narrow the field.
Serving on that committee are David E. Brown, superintendent of the Irvine Unified School District; Jessie Kovayashi, retired superintendent of the Berryessa Union School District, and Art Perrone, Eureka Cos. chairman and co-founder of the district’s Business Education Network.
Former Supt. Rudy Castruita left Orange County’s largest school district this summer to head the San Diego County Department of Education.
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