Superintendent Search In BCPS: How To Submit Comments

TOWSON, MD – What do you want in your next superintendent in Baltimore County? The Baltimore County Board of Education wants to know.

Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) is the 25th largest school system in the U.S., and finding the next leader is a big job that requires input from the entire community.

There will be a forum from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, at George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology where people can weigh in. Each person will have up to three minutes to speak.

Here are questions that the school board has posed:

• What do you think should be priorities for the superintendent of BCPS?
• Which traits and characteristics would you like the superintendent to have?

Those who cannot make it to Tuesday's forum can send comments online and watch the live stream on the BCPS website.

School officials cautioned that there is one topic not up for discussion at the event: the current interim superintendent, Verletta White, who has served in that role since her predecessor, Dallas Dance, retired in 2017. Both have been scrutinized for accepting money from entities outside the school system, and Dance recently pleaded guilty to related perjury charges.

"This forum is not intended to be an opportunity to discuss the current interim superintendent, but, instead, to seek input on the desired qualities of the next permanent superintendent," BCPS said in a statement on its website Monday.

The forum will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, at George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, 938 York Road, Towson, MD, 21204. Speakers can sign in from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Each speaker will be given up to three minutes to comment.

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