Former charter school manager Kasich's golden boy for state super's job!

From John Curry, June 2, 2011

"Before being named by Kasich to his current post, Sommers headed a charter-school management company in Detroit and previously oversaw the Butler Technology & Career Development Schools in southwest Ohio."

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Kasich adviser is top candidate for Ohio schools superintendent

Columbus Dispatch, June 2, 2011

By Catherine Candisky

Robert D. Summers

Gov. John Kasich's chief education adviser tops the list of about 40 applicants to be Ohio's next schools superintendent.

Robert D. Sommers, Kasich's hand-picked director of the Governor's Office of 21st Century Education, would appear to have an advantage.

The 19-member Ohio Board of Education -- which includes seven Kasich appointees -- will hire a replacement for Deborah Delisle, who in a tearful resignation announcement in April said the new Republican administration told her she had to go.

At the time there was much speculation that the job was being cleared for Sommers.

Before being named by Kasich to his current post, Sommers headed a charter-school management company in Detroit and previously oversaw the Butler Technology & Career Development Schools in southwest Ohio. He also spent 15 years with the Ohio Department of Education.

Other applicants include Reynoldsburg Schools Superintendent Stephen Dackin, professors from Columbus State Community College and Otterbein University, and people working elsewhere in education and the private sector.

Resumes were to be submitted to the board this week. The panel is scheduled to conduct telephone interviews with about 10 applicants Tuesday at its monthly board meeting in Columbus.