LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Clark County College District has narrowed down its seek for its subsequent superintendent after being with no everlasting chief for a couple of yr.
The district’s board of trustees will meet Tuesday to debate and approve the slate of six candidates it is scheduled to interview subsequent week.
A kind of candidates is Pedro Martinez, the earlier chief government officer of Chicago Public Faculties who was fired from that job in late December.
“I don’t see the probability of a strike. I really don’t. I don’t see it,” Martinez advised 8 Information Now’s sister station WGN on Jan. 29 after leaving a Chicago courthouse. He was talking about Chicago’s lecturers union. Each side have but to come back to an settlement on a brand new contract.
Martinez is at present in a struggle with Chicago’s training board. The board fired him as CEO after he refused to comply with the mayor’s request and take out a short-term excessive curiosity mortgage to pay for brand spanking new trainer salaries, based on WGN. Chicago Public Faculties is going through a $500 million deficit.
“I will continue supporting our bargaining team in the hopes of reaching a fair financially responsible labor agreement,” Martinez stated.
“I was elected to fight for the people of this city. And whoever is in the way of that, get out of it,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Martinez was CCSD’s deputy superintendent in 2011 however left to take the highest job at Washoe County.
“I’ve loved every minute of working here in the CCSD, but its actually a great opportunity to continue some work that I started there, prior to being here in Clark, I was actually in Washoe [County],” Martinez advised 8 Information Now on June 29, 2012.
Two years later in 2013, Washoe’s faculty board fired him saying he misrepresented his credentials. He disputed that and filed a counter lawsuit, settling for half one million {dollars}.
Martinez remains to be serving as chief of Chicago Public Faculties till June, based on WGN.
So far as the opposite 5 CCSD superintendent candidates, solely two have connections to the district.
Meet the candidates for the following Clark County College District superintendent
The varsity board will meet Tuesday to approve the six finalists for superintendent and the district’s timeline for rent, based on an agenda posted on the district’s web site. Interviews are tentatively scheduled for Feb. 24 and Feb. 25.
After these interviews, trustees will slim the pool of candidates and maintain interviews once more on March 10 and March 11. Then on March 13, the board will vote on a superintendent.
