4 Marlborough Superintendent Candidates To Tour City Schools

MARLBOROUGH, MA — The four finalists for the superintendent job in Marlborough will begin meeting with the community next week ahead of a possible May school committee vote on a final candidate.

In January, Marlborough Superintendent Michael Bergeron announced he would leave the role in June to take a job at Tabletop Tycoon, a New Hampshire-based publisher of tabletop games.

The school committee formed a search committee in March to look for a new superintendent. The group received 23 applications for the job, and ended up interviewing nine semifinalists. That list was pared down further to four finalists:

• Michael Baldassarre, the assistant superintendent for student services at Woburn Public Schools and former Everett Public Schools special education director.
• Mary Murphy, Marlborough's assistant superintendent of teaching and learning and former Whitcomb School principal.
• Nan Skiff Murphy, the Marblehead Public Schools assistant superintendent of teaching and learning and former Lowell Public Schools director of school improvement.
• Timothy Sippel, the Worcester Public Schools manager of instruction and school leadership and former principal at John Muir High School in Pasadena, Calif.

During an April 12 school committee meeting, school committee and search committee member Denise Ryan alerted the committee that two of the candidates were also finalists for other superintendent jobs in the region.

On April 27, two of the candidates will tour city schools and meet with officials, including Bergeron and Mayor Arthur Vigeant. They will also sit for a live interview with the school committee in the evening. The other two candidates will go through that process on May 2.