Interim faculty superintendent Dr. Fateama Fulmore and elected state Board of Training member Dr. Sharon Latten-Clark are nonetheless within the working to turn out to be the following chief of New Orleans public faculties.
In accordance with Nola.com, each candidates accomplished the primary spherical of interviews for the place with approval from the complete Orleans Parish Faculty Board. The seek for a brand new chief comes after Superintendent Avis Williams stepped down in November 2024, leaving six months for the board to rent a everlasting substitute.
“The 2 finalists exhibited qualities and {qualifications} which are in alignment with the imaginative and prescient of the Board and the wants of our district,” Orleans Parish Faculty Board President Katie Baudouin mentioned in a press launch.
Fulmore, a Brooklyn, New York, native and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Included, has served within the district central workplace for over two years and was deputy superintendent underneath Williams. She boasts expertise as an overseer of enrollment, profession and technical training instructor, center and highschool assistant principal and highschool principal. The educator involves the New Orleans faculty district with prior administrative expertise in Omaha and Philadelphia. Fulmore’s current plan to maneuver the district from a multimillion-dollar disaster stands out.
Latten-Clark, a Xavier Faculty Prep alumna, is from New Orleans. Her resume spans skilled instructional roles reminiscent of an English instructor, assistant principal, longtime chief of Sophie B. Wright constitution faculty, and her current position as a state board of training member. She has greater than 25 years of expertise.
Fulmore and Latten-Clark emerged from the greater than 20 candidates who utilized. The candidates will rotate amongst attendees throughout a public assembly April 1 at Walter Cohen Excessive Faculty to provide introductions and reply questions. The board encourages the neighborhood to take part by attending in-person conferences, watching the social media or YouTube livestreams, or finishing a suggestions kind.
The ultimate spherical of interviews and elections will happen April 2. The Orleans Parish Faculty Board plans to solidify contract phrases for the brand new superintendent throughout its April 17 meeting.
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