Calls for Meriweather Continue As Board Nears Decision
Community members say Interim Superintendent should get permanent job.
The search for a superintendent for Detroit’s schools is expected to end this week but members of the community are still voicing concerns about the choice of finalists.
The field of candidates to run DPSCD is down to two: Derrick Coleman, superintendent of River Rouge Schools, and Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of schools in Duvall County, Florida. But community pressure to add Interim Superintendent Alycia Meriweather to the list of finalists has not let up. The Detroit Association of Black Organizations said the search process that excluded Meriweather is unfair.
Executive Director Reverend Horace Sheffield, III said Meriweather has proven herself.
“People have confidence in her,” Meriweather said. “The unions have confidence in her. The business community has confidence in her. So let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.”
School board members visited several schools in Vitti’s Florida district last week and are scheduled to visit Coleman’s schools in River Rouge this week. The legislation that created DPSCD gives the board 90 days to name a superintendent.
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