Trustee Asked Not to Seek Top School Post
Estancia High School’s PTA Co-President Sherri Hoyt has asked Newport-Mesa Unified School District Trustee Ed Decker to withdraw his candidacy for the superintendent’s job.
Hoyt said she fears the school will lack a voice in the search because Decker, whose jurisdiction includes Estancia, must excuse himself from any board decisions about the new superintendent.
Decker recently applied to be the next superintendent of the district, filling the spot left by Mac Bernd, who resigned in December to take a job in Texas.
Board members told Hoyt that each district in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa will be represented because they are assembling a committee of parents and teachers from each area to screen superintendent candidates. That committee will be chosen Feb. 24.
Decker, a 58-year-old administrator serving in his second term at Coastline College , has declined to withdraw his candidacy.
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