The Oak Park Elementary School District 97 Board of Education is expected to hire its next superintendent at its Feb. 24 meeting. The board has apparently made its choice and has been negotiating a contract with its pick.
The two finalists are: Community Consolidated School District 59 Superintendent Terri Bresnahan and Riverside Elementary School District 96 Director of Teaching and Learning Angela Dolezal.
They had their final interviews with the school board and committee of stakeholders, including staff and parents, on Feb. 2.
Both finalists also participated in a Zoom town hall on Jan. 29 in which they answered identical questions posed by the school board’s consultant, former Illinois State School Superintendent Carmen Ayala. Those who watched the town hall were able to rate the finalist’s answers to the questions that were posed to them.
“We had a very thorough process,” District 97 school board President Cheree Moore said at the Feb. 10 school board meeting. “We are still processing. We have not finalized anything but as soon as we do we’ll have a celebration.”
The district’s superintendent post opened last summer when Ushma Shah unexpectedly resigned her position just before the start of the school year.
