LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Clark County College District is anticipated to have a brand new superintendent Thursday night time to steer the fifth-largest college district within the nation.
The College Board of Trustees is scheduled to call the brand new superintendent Thursday night throughout an everyday college board assembly. Whoever is chosen would be the district’s everlasting chief following former Superintendent Jesus Jara’s resignation in February 2024.
CCSD superintendent candidates take questions from the general public
Greater than 40 individuals utilized for the highest job. In current weeks, following candidate interviews and a public discussion board, the candidate checklist was whittled down from 5 to 3: Jhone Ebert, Ben Shuldiner and Jesse Welsh.
Ebert is the Nevada Superintendent of Public Instruction and was reappointed by Governor Lombardo in January 2023. Earlier than holding that place, she was the senior deputy commissioner for training coverage in New York State. She was additionally chief innovation and productiveness officer in Clark County from 2013-2015.
Sculdiner is at present serving because the superintendent of the Lansing College District in Michigan. Previous to that, he was a dean’s fellow and distinguished lecturer in New York, NY at Hunter School. Whereas at Hunter School, he was a board member for the New York Metropolis College District, the biggest district within the U.S. His expertise consists of being a historical past division chair, instructor and principal in Brooklyn, NY.
Walsh is the CEO of a Nevada State Excessive College, a constitution college, and began working with CCSD greater than 20 years in the past as a math and Spanish instructor. He turned a dean, coordinator for the northwest area after which an assistant superintendent. He was the superintendent for the Paradise Valley Unified College District in Phoenix, Arizona from June 2019 to December 2020.
