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Norwalk School Officials Settle On A New Superintendent

NORWALK, Conn. – The Norwalk school system extended an offer to a new superintendent Wednesday, according to Board of Education Chairman Michael Lyons.

Norwalk Board of Education Chairman Michael Lyons said Wednesday that the school system has settled on a new, as-yet unnamed superintendent.

Norwalk Board of Education Chairman Michael Lyons said Wednesday that the school system has settled on a new, as-yet unnamed superintendent.

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Who that candidate is has not been disclosed because that individual has not yet accepted the offer, Lyons said. But the move ends a months-long search for a permanent replacement for Susan Marks, who resigned in the summer of 2012.

Tony Daddona, the school system’s assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, has served as interim superintendent since last August.

“I can only confirm that the board made a choice, and we're contacting the candidate now,” Lyons said Wednesday. He did not offer any additional details.

Board members made the decision during a closed-door, executive session Tuesday night but did not offer further comment.

The school system worked with Illinois-based PROACT, a search firm, to find candidates for the job, which is expected to pay nearly $250,000 annually. PROACT and the Board of Education conducted community hearings over the winter to learn what parents and other members of the public wanted in a new superintendent.

Despite those and other outreach efforts, Bruce Mellion, head of the city’s teachers’ union, blasted the board for conducting a “secretive process” that did not include adequate negotiations with the bargaining group.

“We were told that one, two or three of the finalists for the job would spend a day in the community,” Mellion said during a Board of Education meeting Tuesday. “That has not occurred.”

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