IRVINE : Superintendent Survey Session Is Planned

Community members will get one last chance to give Irvine Unified School District consultants their opinions on the qualities they want in a new superintendent.

A representative of Management Analysis and Planning Associates, the Berkeley-based firm hired by the district to survey community opinions, will meet with residents from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at school district headquarters.

The firm has already interviewed 150 community members during a three-day period earlier this month and received comments by letter and fax.

On Dec. 6, the school board will decide whether to launch a search outside the district for candidates to replace former Supt. David E. Brown, who was hired in 1987.

Brown left at the end of October to become superintendent of the Napa Valley Unified School District.

Susan Long and Paul Reed, two of the district’s three deputy superintendents, are candidates for the job.

Long was hired in 1987 as deputy superintendent of personnel services.

Reed, deputy superintendent of business services, joined the school district in 1974 as a special education teacher. He was promoted to an administrative position in 1986 by the school district’s founding superintendent, A. Stanley Corey.

Dean Waldfogel, deputy superintendent of curriculum and instruction, said he is not interested in the job.

Waldfogel is serving as interim superintendent of the 21,500-student district.

The district’s consulting firm will continue to accept letters from community members who cannot attend the final meeting with the consultant.

For information, call Donna Wilkerson at (714) 651-0444, Ext. 201.