The Cayuga-Onondaga Board of Cooperative Educational Services is one step closer to finding a new superintendent.
Last month BOCES received 17 applications to succeed Gary Gilchrist as district superintendent; on Thursday, the board of education and search consultant Jessica Cohen, superintendent of the Onondaga Cortland Madison BOCES, announced that the application pool has been narrowed down to four.
“We have some very qualified candidates and at this point the board will be looking to find the candidate who is the best fit for this BOCES,” Cohen said.
The four remaining candidates will soon be interviewed by the board. Richard P. Mills, New York State commissioner of education, will be interviewing two or three candidates by the end of the month, Walker said, with full-day interviews being held by the second week in October. The board is looking to appoint a new superintendent by Nov. 1 with an expected start of Jan. 1, 2008, replacing Gilchrist, who will retire at the end of the year.
Walker said that BOCES had attracted a typical number of applicants. The application deadline was Aug, 17.
“It's typical to recent searches around the state for other district superintendents for BOCES,” she said. “I think that probably having a new building and a growing student population has certainly added to the pool of candidates.”
Most of the applicants are from New York, Cohen said, with out-of-state applicants from Washington D.C., Pennsylvania and Vermont. The four semi-finalists are all from New York and mostly from the central New York region, she said.
“We have some very qualified candidates and at this point the board will be looking to find the candidate who is the best fit for this BOCES,” Cohen said.
The four remaining candidates will soon be interviewed by the board. Richard P. Mills, New York State commissioner of education, will be interviewing two or three candidates by the end of the month, Walker said, with full-day interviews being held by the second week in October. The board is looking to appoint a new superintendent by Nov. 1 with an expected start of Jan. 1, 2008, replacing Gilchrist, who will retire at the end of the year.
Walker said that BOCES had attracted a typical number of applicants. The application deadline was Aug, 17.
“It's typical to recent searches around the state for other district superintendents for BOCES,” she said. “I think that probably having a new building and a growing student population has certainly added to the pool of candidates.”
Most of the applicants are from New York, Cohen said, with out-of-state applicants from Washington D.C., Pennsylvania and Vermont. The four semi-finalists are all from New York and mostly from the central New York region, she said.
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