JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi’s second-largest school district is naming three finalists to be its next superintendent.
The Jackson school district says it’s considering Dana Bedden, Errick Greene and Kenneth Simington.
Bedden has been a superintendent in Richmond, Virginia, and Irving, Texas. He currently leads a consulting firm.
Greene is a top-level administrator in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after serving as a special assistant to the emergency manager for Detroit public schools. Before, he was a principal and managed a group of principals in Washington, D.C.
Simington is a deputy superintendent with Winston-Salem/Forsyth County schools in North Carolina, where he’s worked for 30 years.
Superintendent Cedrick Gray resigned in November 2016 after Jackson received a failing academic rating and the state Department of Education put the 27,000-student district on probation citing safety, teaching and discipline violations.
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