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ORLANDO, Fla. – Orange County Public Schools<\/a> has begun the process of finding its next superintendent as current Superintendent Dr. Maria Vazquez prepares to leave the district.<\/p>\n School leaders heard presentations Monday from several firms seeking to oversee the superintendent search.<\/p>\n District considers firms for search <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n During a workshop this week, Orange County school leaders heard pitches from several search firms about how they would recruit and evaluate candidates for the district’s top job.<\/p>\n The presentations included discussions about how the district could gather feedback from employees, parents, students and other members of the community before selecting its next superintendent.<\/p>\n Community input to play key role <\/p>\n A recurring theme among the presentations was the importance of giving the community a voice in the process.<\/p>\n Online surveys have become an increasingly important way to reach people who may not have time to attend public meetings, one presenter said.<\/p>\n Search firms also emphasized direct engagement with people inside the school system, including teachers, administrators, support employees, parents and potentially students.<\/p>\n Search comes as Vazquez prepares to leave <\/p>\n The superintendent search follows Vazquez’s announcement that she will leave the district.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The district must first determine how it will conduct the search before moving forward with recruiting and evaluating candidates for the position.<\/p>\n The district did not make a final decision on which firm to hire and a timeline for selecting the next superintendent has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on information shared by Orange County Public Schools and from comments made during public meeting on Oct. 12, 20226.<\/p>\n Orange County News<\/a>Orange County Schools<\/a>Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ORLANDO, Fla. – Orange County Public Schools has begun the process of finding its next superintendent as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[113,47,115,6601,1335,9421,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-427487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-education","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-ocps","tag-orange-county","tag-organizations","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}