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Superintendent, principal search interviews to take place shortly

Date: 3/15/2010

March 15, 2010

By Courtney Llewellyn

Reminder Assistant Editor



EAST LONGMEADOW - This spring, the East Longmeadow Public Schools and the parents of their students will be seeing two important positions filled - that of the superintendent and that of Richard Freccero, the retiring high school principal.

The School Committee presented updates on the searches for these two positions at their meeting last Monday night.

This week, the Superintendent Search Committee will be interviewing the semi-finalists for the position. On March 22 at 6:30 p.m., an open session meeting will have the screening committee presenting a list of finalists to the School Committee.

During the week of March 24, the finalists will be making site visits in East Longmeadow; the following week, the School Committee will be visiting the home districts of the finalists.

The final interviews will take place in open session on April 5, 6 and 7 starting at 6:30 p.m., with the School Committee voting to appoint the new superintendent on April 7.

Twelve administrators applied for the position.

"I am encouraged by the quality of applicants that we have received," School Committee Vice Chair Gregory Thompson said. "I am also thankful that we have such a dedicated screening committee that will be a major part of this process."

A total of 11 candidates applied for the high school principal position, and that number was narrowed to six by that search committee on Thursday.

"On March 15, [the search committee] will have its final interviews and we'll most likely cut the number of finalists to three," School Committee member Bob Mazzariello, head of the principal search committee, said. "We'll send those top three on to the final interviews with the School Committee on either March 22 or April 5, pending finalist approval by the search committee."

Mazzariello noted that all those who applied for the position were certified by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees and that there were "some very good candidates" in the group.