(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- A new program will help nurture, support and train a cadre of African American school superintendents, the Kentucky Department of Education announced today.
The Minority Superintendent Intern Program (MSIP) will place African American educators in school districts for one year, where they will serve as assistants to successful superintendents. Currently, Kentucky has no minority school superintendents in its 176 school districts.
Superintendents in the Daviess County, Oldham County and Shelby County school districts have agreed to host the interns.
The interns will develop individual growth plans and have regular meetings and networking sessions with superintendents, board of education members and search firms. Interns also will get practical experience with public relations, curriculum/assessment/instruction issues, labor relations, human resources, facility management and finance and budgeting.
The program will begin in late June and run through June of 2004, with three districts and three interns involved during the first year of the program. Applicants should be certified, or close to certification, as superintendents.
Applications will be accepted through May 23, with interviews and appointments to be made by June 10. Applicants may call the department's Division of Educator Recruitment and Retention at (502) 564-1479 for more information and an application packet.
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