The Dearborn Schools Board of Education will have a very busy April as trustees dedicate many meetings to the search for a new district superintendent.
Applications for the superintendent position close on March 27, 2026 at 4 p.m. The board has nine special meetings planned after that related to the search. Dates and times could be altered as the search progresses, so those interested in the process are encouraged to look for updates on the district’s Superintendent Search Information webpage. Dearborn Schools Board of Education meeting dates are also shown on the district’s digital calendar.
All meetings are planned for the Board Room at the Administrative Service Center, 18700 Audette St., Dearborn. Except for part of the first meeting, all of the meetings are open to the public.
On April 9 at 6 p.m., the board will meet to select candidates to interview. Trustees will go into closed session while the Michigan Leadership Institute provides trustees with information about the individuals who applied. The meeting will then return to a public session where board members will choose which applicants to interview and select which questions to ask all of the interviewees. The names of those who applied will not be made public unless they are selected for an interview. The Michigan Leadership Institute is the board’s search firm and consultant for the superintendent search.
On Monday, April 13, the Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting. That will be followed on April 14 to 16 with candidate interviews each night starting at 6 p.m. Tentatively, two candidates will be interviewed each evening. Each person would have up to 90 minutes to answer questions and talk with the board. That plan will have to be adjusted if the board opts to interview more than six candidates, either by shortening the interview time or adding another date.
On Saturday, April 18 at 11 a.m., trustees would meet again to select finalists to bring back for further consideration.
Finalists are expected to spend a day in the district tentatively on April 22 and 23. Those visits would include touring some parts of the district and meeting stakeholders. Public meet-and-greets would be held in the late afternoon to early evening for each candidate.
On April 24 at 6 p.m., the Board of Education is scheduled to interview the finalists, and then on May 4 at 6 p.m. meet to select whom to hire. The district and the selected candidate would then need to negotiate a contract before the new superintendent is actually hired. The new superintendent is expected to start work on July 1, which is also the beginning of the district’s fiscal year.
All of the meetings will be shown live on the district’s YouTube channel. The initial interviews on April 14 to 16 will be removed after that night’s meeting and not be reposted until all the first-round interviews are concluded. This is to keep the applicants with later interview dates from having easy access to the questions and answers of those who interview earlier. The other meetings, including the finalists interviews, will be shown live and still be available any time after the meeting for viewing later.
The Board of Education set all of these meeting dates during a special meeting with the Michigan Leadership Institute on Jan. 27, 2026. As the process continues, dates and times could change, especially as the board works to find times that also work for any candidates, both those who may be from the local area and those who need to arrange travel to attend from farther away.
Dearborn Public Schools is the third largest district in Michigan with about 20,000 students in preschool through 12th grade.
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