Superintendent search underway

To help find a new superintendent, the Edna Independent School District Board of Trustees recently approved an executive search services agreement with the Texas Association of School Boards. 

TASB will assist the EISD Board of Trustees by advertising, identifying, attracting and attaining superintendent candidates, EISD Board of Trustees President Patrick Brzozowski said. 

He said the cost for providing this complete service is $7,200.

“We have developed a timeline with TASB and will follow that as closely as possible,” Brzozowski said.

In late August, TASB will hold a community involvement session to elicit input from trustees, school personnel and community members based on questions posed by TASB, he said.

The application deadline is late September. The application will be reviewed by trustees in early October. Interviews by trustees will be from mid to late October. Action to select a finalist will be during the month of November. The hiring is scheduled to be made in December. 

The Board of Trustees accepted EISD Superintendent Bob Wells’ resignation during a special meeting on June 24. According to Wells, his resignation will go into effect June 30, 2014, though he may leave at an earlier date. According to a board-issued, press release that was sent out on June 25, for school systems to be successful, seven members of the Edna ISD Board of Trustees and the superintendent must share a common philosophy  of how to achieve that vision, which is no longer true in Edna. That is the reason the board requested Wells’ departure and why Wells agreed to do so. The separation is civil and professional.