The search for the next Ketchikan school superintendent isn’t shaping up to be much of a competition. Only one candidate is still in the running.
Scott Huff, the principal of the local Tongass School of Arts and Sciences, was one of three applicants for superintendent of the island’s school district. The current superintendent Michael Robbins is resigning at the end of June.
Two of those three candidates – Huff and an out-of-town applicant named Don McPherson – were selected as finalists by the Ketchikan School Board at their last meeting.
The next step of the hiring process, per the Alaska Association of School Boards, was for Huff and McPherson to be invited in-person in late May for tours, interviews with the board, and public forums. According to school board officials, McPherson declined the invitation to come to Ketchikan for those interviews, leaving Huff as the only candidate for the top school administrator position.
The school board will convene Wednesday for a special meeting about how to proceed.
