Modesto City Schools aims to hire superintendent by July. What’s the process to get there?
With the new school year on the horizon, Modesto City Schools is working to hire a new superintendent.
This comes as superintendent Sara Noguchi — who started working for the district in 2018 — announced last month she will be retiring.
The district has a proposed hiring timeline and has hired Leadership Associates to help with the search. This firm is meeting with the board of education to discuss characteristics needed, a list of community and staff members to talk to, develop an online survey and other preliminary work.
Modesto City Schools will send out a survey to community members on Friday, Feb. 28. It will remain open until March 3. While the survey is out, advertisements for the position will also go out.
Once the hiring firm and school board receive the survey results, they will begin identifying applicants to meet the criteria set out by all parties.
Applicants for superintendent will close on March 17 by 5 p.m.
After all the applications are submitted, the school board will meet in closed session April 14th to select candidates to be interviewed. One week later, the board will select four or five finalists.
By the end of April or early May, the school board will then select the candidate from the finalists. The person selected as the new superintendent will have a contract approved during the May 12 school board meeting.
Once the hiring is done, the board anticipates the superintendent will start July 1.
