CLEVELAND, Tenn. – The Cleveland Board of Education wants to have its next director of schools in place by early June.
The city school board fired its last school director, Dr. Martin Ringstaff, on Feb. 5 for “conduct unbecoming” following revelations he exchanged sexually explicit social media messages with a woman other than his wife. Assistant Director of Schools Cathy Goodman has been appointed to serve as interim director.
On Wednesday, the board voted 6-0 in favor of using a $6,500 director search package offered by the Tennessee School Boards Association.
Board Vice Chairman Murl Dirksen praised the board’s experience with the TSBA director search process when it hired Ringstaff five years ago.
“When we saw all the applications that came in and the screening that had to be done, I was really, really happy that we had decided to use TSBA,” Dirksen said. “It’s a tremendous amount of work.”