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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Jane Rafal, Norris Brown seek interim post
The Dayton school board interviewed two candidates Tuesday for interim superintendent and hopes to interview two more.
Deputy Superintendent Debra Brathwaite will not be among them.
Jane McGee Rafal, the district’s executive director of elementary education, and recently retired Jefferson Twp. Superintendent Norris Brown interviewed Tuesday. School board President Yvonne Isaacs said the board is looking to add two more candidates before week’s end with the goal of naming Superintendent Percy Mack’s temporary replacement by early next week.
Rafal returned for a second stint with Dayton schools in 2005. She formerly was a principal and administrator here before becoming assistant superintendent in Warren, Ohio. She later won the top job there and then went on to Mesa, Ariz., as assistant superintendent.
Brown, a 41 year educator, returned to Jefferson in 2003 after retiring from Middletown schools. Brown was a teacher, principal, coach and assistant superintendent in Jefferson for 27 years before a 10-year stint in middletown as pupil personnel director and interim superintendent. Since 2003 he has guided Jefferson schools through academic and budget crises.
Superintendent Percy Mack announced in May that he was resigning to take a job as superintendent in Columbia, S.C. He starts in Columbia in July.
Brathwaite has said she wants to be considered to replace Mack as superintendent but she declined the opportunity to take the interim job. Brathwaite has been a finalist for superintendent of Toledo, Akron and Princeton schools.
The school board has said it wants an interim superintendent while it conducts a national search for Mack’s permanent replacement. The board also has said it expects to place a levy on the November ballot.
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