Omaha Public Schools superintendent withdraws D.C.-area job application
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – The superintendent of Omaha Community Schools educated the district recently that she would continue being for the future faculty yr.
Final month, Dr. Cheryl Logan knowledgeable the college board that she experienced been approached by a faculty district in the Washington, D.C.-location to utilize for the superintendent task there, which is also in closer proximity to her family members, according to Tuesday’s release from the OPS university board.
“You could hear information that I was just lately a prospect for a superintendency in the Washington metropolitan location. Taking part in that research was not a conclusion taken frivolously and just one I did not request. It offered a special option to serve a further remarkable college district close to my husband, adult daughter and just about all of my prolonged loved ones,” Dr. Logan reported in a letter to OPS team.
About the weekend, nonetheless, she informed OPS staff members that she experienced withdrawn her title from consideration for the task.
“Omaha is a exclusive faculty district, and we have much more to complete jointly. By means of tough occasions, we have designed significant development aligned to our Strategic Approach of Motion. These endeavors will not prevent,” she said in the letter.
The university board expressed their gratitude that Dr. Logan would keep on being in Omaha for the 2022-23 college calendar year.
“The desire from a district so substantially larger than Omaha Community Schools, and for what is regarded as by lots of to be just one of the leading superintendent work opportunities in the region, is a gratifying confirmation of the caliber of our Superintendent. We are heartened that Dr. Logan’s choice to continue being in Omaha demonstrates the help she has acquired from the Omaha local community.”
Read through Dr. Logan’s letter to OPS staff members
To my fellow Omaha General public Educational institutions staff members,
It is an honor to serve as your Superintendent, and I really significantly look forward to our collective operate in the university yr to arrive.
You may well listen to news that I was not long ago a applicant for a superintendency in the Washington metropolitan region. Collaborating in that search was not a decision taken lightly and a single I did not search for. It offered a one of a kind opportunity to provide another excellent school district in the vicinity of my spouse, adult daughter and almost all of my prolonged household. I was born, lifted and spent substantially of my job in the Washington metropolitan location before operating in Philadelphia and moving to Omaha. As you can envision, top the past three decades isolated from my family has taken a personalized toll.
Omaha is a exclusive faculty district, and we have a lot more to accomplish together. Via complicated times, we have built significant development aligned to our Strategic Prepare of Motion. Those endeavors will not cease. I am grateful to our Board of Instruction and knowledgeable them a week back that I was no lengthier participating in the research.
I am happy to be aspect of our district group.
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