Search for Coeur d’Alene superintendent nets 34 applicants

The search firm hired to help find the next superintendent of Coeur d’Alene Public Schools announced Friday that 34 persons from 20 different states have submitted applications.

“We are pleased to see a diverse and talented pool of candidates interested in leading our school district,” Coeur d’Alene School Board Chairman Casey Morrisroe said in a news release. “We look forward to the next stages of this process, and encourage the members of our community to come out and meet the finalists at the end of January.”

The school district hired the search firm McPherson & Jacobson to help find the next superintendent. The board is expected to identify three or four finalists by Jan. 22.

Teachers, principals, employees, students and parents will get a chance to meet the finalists in a series of public sessions that will begin at the end of the month. The new superintendent, expected to start on July 1, is replacing Matt Handelman who resigned in April to take the same job for the Evergreen Public Schools in Western Washington.