The Kentucky Board of Education today conducted its first review of applicants for the position of commissioner of education. As allowed under state law, the review was conducted in closed session. After returning to open session, the board voted to ask the search firm to seek additional information on 15 of the applicants, who represent both in-state and out-of-state candidates.
Pending review of that information, the board will conduct the first round of interviews in the process to select Kentucky’s next commissioner. Those interviews are scheduled Aug. 14-15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville.
Also today, the Kentucky Board of Education named Kevin C. Brown, associate commissioner and general counsel for the Kentucky Department of Education, as interim commissioner of education. Brown will take over the commissioner’s duties on Sept. 1 following the retirement of current Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday on Aug. 31 and will serve until a new commissioner is hired and on the job. He will be compensated at a salary equivalent to $150,000 a year.
Brown is chief attorney for the commissioner and the Kentucky Board of Education. Previously, Brown was an assistant attorney general in Kentucky and a law clerk in the Lexington office of Bowles Rice LLP.
The Kentucky Board of Education’s annual retreat continues this afternoon with its regular August meeting scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. tomorrow. The agenda for each meeting as well as supporting materials are available on the Kentucky Board of Education portal.
Information on how to access a live webcast of the meetings is available here.
From Kentucky Department of Education