Three administrators with ties to DeKalb Schools Superintendent Steve Green from his previous job were recently made permanent hires, the district said in a release Friday, months after arriving at the district as interim staffers.
Leo Brown will continue as chief human capital management officer, Eileen Houston-Stewart will continue as chief communications and community relations officer and Manomay Malathip will continue as executive director for student advancement. All three worked with Green when he was superintendent for Kansas City Public Schools.
The three applied for the job through a national search firm, Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, while serving their interim appointments, the release states. Specifics about the search — including how much the search firm was paid, how many recommendations were brought forth to the district for vetting — have not been made available.
“I did my due diligence to determine how best to improve the functions of the Central Office,” Green said in the release. “It included personal observations, conversations, evaluations and examining previous reviews. DeKalb is fortunate that we have recruited these highly-respected educators to join our team.”
Green told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in February he was confident in his interim selections, noting he would allow the process to play out and the best candidates to take over the jobs.
“I think it speaks to the confidence in their own ability,” Green said then. “Even if things don’t work out, there was the intent that they would perhaps … the next chapter of their career would begin (in metro Atlanta), anyway.”
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