{"id":54728,"date":"2025-11-18T15:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54728\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:58:23","slug":"el-paso-isd-names-dr-brian-lusk-as-lone-finalist-for-superintendent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54728\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso ISD names Dr. Brian Lusk as lone finalist for superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees has unanimously named Dr. Brian Lusk as the lone finalist for the position of superintendent. <\/p>\n<p>Board President Leah Hanany expressed confidence in Dr. Lusk&#8217;s ability to advance the district&#8217;s mission of providing high-quality education. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;El Paso ISD\u2019s Board of Trustees is proud to name Dr. Brian Lusk as our next Superintendent,&#8221; Hanany said. &#8220;We look forward to working with Dr. Lusk as we move forward and focus on what matters most, which is our students,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lusk, currently the Deputy Superintendent of Schools and Academics for Dallas ISD, brings nearly 30 years of experience in public education, according to EPISD officials. <\/p>\n<p>His career began as a classroom teacher in Dallas, and he has since held various leadership roles, including principal and executive director of schools. In his current role, he oversees 228 schools and leads initiatives in academics, college and career readiness, and athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Trustee Valerie Beals praised the board&#8217;s collaborative effort in the selection process. &#8220;I\u2019m incredibly proud of the work we\u2019ve done. Our superintendent search process was truly successful,&#8221; Beals said. The Texas Association of School Boards facilitated the process, ensuring community engagement and feedback.<\/p>\n<p>State law requires a 21-day waiting period before Dr. Lusk can be officially named superintendent. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/citys-proposed-transportation-fee-raises-questions-over-how-street-money-is-spent-joe-pickett-robert-cortinas-texas-state-representative-road-el-paso-city-council-chief-financial-officer-lawsuit-franchise-fee-discussion-water-bill?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">City\u2019s proposed transportation fee raises questions over how street money is spent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up <\/a>to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees has unanimously named Dr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-54728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}