The Somerville School Committee recently named a Screening & Interview Team to aid in the selection of the city’s next school superintendent.
The committee in February relaunched its search for a new leader of the district after one of three finalists dropped out of contention for the job.
The new 12-member team will review a fresh round of applicants for the position and after interviewing selected candidates in closed session, narrow the field to a short list of finalists. In late March or early April, the School Committee will interview those finalists in public session before considering an appointment.
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The candidate hired will replace Mary Skipper, who resigned to become Boston’s school chief last September.
The team will include four School Committee members: chair Andre Green, vice chair Ilana Krephcin, Ward 1 member Emily Ackman, and Ward 5 member Laura Pitone. Other members are Kayla Centeio, the district’s enrollment health specialist and a Somerville school parent; Somerville educators Charles Jabour and Alzimara Oliveira; Alicia Kerstein, Somerville High School’s interim principal; school parents Marta Fuertes and Uma Murugan; Samantha Patton, the Kennedy School’s interim assistant principal; and Karen Woods, the district’s chief personnel officer and a Somerville school parent.
John Laidler can be reached at laidler@globe.com.