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SBRSD continues superintendent search

SHEFFIELD – The Southern Berkshire Regional School District is continuing to move forward with its search for a new superintendent.

“We’re really eager to do it right,” said SBRSD School Committee Member Vito Valentini.

At the Aug. 23 meeting of the school committee, Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) Field Director Patricia Correira gave a presentation of a timeline for the search.

The school committee approved the timeline, which has the vote to hire the new superintendent from a pool of three to five finalists scheduled for Feb. 14, 2013. Current Superintendent Michael J. Singleton retires on Aug. 31, 2013.

From Sept. 13-25, the MASC will conduct focus groups to determine what candidates the stakeholders (students, teachers, parents, community members, etc.) would like to see in a new superintendent. A survey will also be posted online for anyone who’s interested to fill out.

Basic job description approved

The school committee also approved a list of basic requirements for the superintendent candidates. They include a “minimum of 10 years in education, including three years of central office and/or administrative experience and five years teaching experience.”

The new superintendent must also have a master’s degree (advanced degree preferred) and be licensed or eligible for licensure as a superintendent of schools in Massachusetts.

The proposed salary will be discussed at the committee’s Sept. 20 meeting.

Heated discussion

During a discussion about the bus routes for the new school year and the SBRSD website with Superintendent Singleton toward the beginning of the meeting, things got heated.

It was brought to the group’s attention the website only had a bus schedule from 2009 posted on it, not a more recent one. School Committee Member Charles B. Flynn called Dr. Singleton out for not paying more attention to the website.

“You’re the man responsible or looking at that webpage,” Mr. Flynn said. “I went through it two nights ago and it’s out-of-date.”

Dr. Singleton then got very defensive, calling for Mr. Flynn to be censured.

“I think you do not represent this school district in a very positive light,” Dr. Singleton said.

Mr. Flynn fired back, accusing Dr. Singleton of insubordination.

“Your statement is totally out-of-order,” Mr. Flynn said.

The rest of the school committee then intervened and diffused the situation by moving on to another topic.

Other business

The committee voted to approve the student and staff handbooks for the 2012-2013 school year, with Mr. Flynn and Carl Stewart opposed.

Some debate was raised on the legality of certain items in the handbooks, but the committee members pushed them through due to the impending start date of the school year.

“Why are we just getting this a week before school?” School Committee H. Dennis Sears questioned.

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