Late last year, current Forest Lake Area School District Superintendent Linda Madsen submitted her letter of resignation to the School Board, with plans to vacate her position June 30, 2017. Days after her December announcement, the search for a replacement began.
“So far we have had meetings with staff and the public, and we have put together a set of criteria based on what we learned from those meetings as well as discussions we have had at our board meetings,” said Rob Rapheal, School Board president. “After putting together all that information, we were all pretty confident that we knew what we were looking for in a superintendent.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
The next step in the process was to put out a call for applicants. The board publicized the opening and received 30 applications.
“I am happy with that number,” Rapheal said. “This number of applicants gives us a really good pool of people with a
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