The Castro Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) Board of Education kicks off the selection process for a new superintendent on Wednesday morning when it will hear from three firms competing to run the search process for CVUSD’s next superintendent.

Per the agenda, the Board will conduct interviews at its public meeting with three firms:

• Education Leadership Services
• HYA Executive Search
• Leadership Associates

After the Board has interviewed and evaluated the firms, it is scheduled to approve the contract for the firm that will conduct the search for the replacement of Jim Negri, who announced his retirement in January for the end of the school year.

In the next few months, Castro Valley Matters will ask Castro Valley what it wants in the new leader of its public schools.

In this era of Proposition 30 funding, California school districts are no longer looking to cut budgets, but are looking to restore programs and consider long-term capital projects. They also must now grapple with a radically different approach to creating a school budgets under the Local Control Funding Formula.

What does it take to lead a school district in this new environment?

If you would like to blog about the issue, send us a note at info@castrovalleymatters.org.

In the meantime, you can share your thoughts below about what you would like to see in CVUSD’s next superintendent.

Update (March 5, 2015)

At its March 4, 2015 special meeting, the CVUSD School Board selected Oakdale-based Educational Leadership Services to conduct the search for the new CVUSD Superintendent.
Here is the press release from CVUSD announcing the selection.