A panel for the Kansas City, Kan., Board of Education interviewed candidates for an appointment to the board today, but did not select one.
There are seven candidates for the appointment to the board, including some well-known community leaders.
The panel interviewed seven candidates, and the board took four ballots, but did not reach the needed four votes for any of the candidates, said David Smith, chief of staff and spokesman for the district. It will be on the board’s agenda again on Tuesday, he said.
Smith said there were only five people voting on the board in total, because the board is filling the seat of Vicki Meyer, who has already left the board; while another board member, Christal Watson, had to recuse herself.
Watson cannot vote because she is one of the seven candidates for the appointed position. She had not run for re-election to the school board because she wanted to run for a Unified Government Commission position last spring, and now she has decided to apply for the open position on the school board. Her current term expires July 1.
Four other candidates for the appointment ran for the school board in the spring elections: Irene Caudillo, Korri Hall-Thompson, Janey M. Humphries and Maria Cecilia Ysaac.
Two more candidates for the appointive position are Nancy Browne, retired athletic director at Washington High School; and Jill Hershberger, retired from teaching at Eisenhower Middle School.