Six to interview for Pomona Unified superintendent post

POMONA - Six applicants, most now working in the California educational
system, have been invited to interview next week for the job of
superintendent of the Pomona Unified School District.

The applicants are:

- Robert Alfaro, Sr., an area superintendent for the Clark County
School District in Las Vegas

- Brian Centeno, past deputy superintendent of curriculum and
instruction for the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District

- Edna Davis-Herring, who until December 2008 served as
superintendent of the Rialto Unified School District

- James Quezon Hammond, superintendent of the Davis Joint Unified
School District

- David Linzey, chief academic officer and assistant superintendent of The Alliance for College-Ready Schools, a non-profit charter school management organization working with Los
Angeles area schools and past principal of Diamond Ranch High School

- Richard Martinez, Pomona Unified interim superintendent

All six applicants will take part in a series of interviews with
school board members, principals, staff, parents, district labor
groups and community leaders.

The interviews are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday 
throughout the day.

District staff and the general public will have a chance to meet and
talk with the applicants those days.

On Monday district staff will be able to meet and ask questions of
Centeno, Hammond and Davis-Herring from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the
board room of the district Education Center, 800 S. Garey Ave.

Following the meeting with district staff, members of the public will
have a chance to meet with the same three candidates in the Education
Center board room from 7 to 8 p.m.

On Tuesday district staff will meet from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. with
Alfaro, Martinez and Linzey in the Education Center board room with
the general public meeting the applicants from 7 to 8 p.m.