However, only two of those panels, one with students and one with parents, were available to watch via livestream. Members of the public and the media could not attend in person.
Nichols told the State Journal the board wanted to match the interview process from previous superintendent searches and “maintain the parts of our interviews we historically have made more public and then which were more internal anyway.”
“When you add a more public component to interviewing, I think generally it can add as a potential distraction from the interview itself.”