The All-Island school committee has picked three finalists for the job of public schools superintendent on Martha’s Vineyard and expects to name their final choice next week, according to an announcement Friday afternoon from search committee chair Alex Salop.
Candidates Jaime L. Curley, Elizabeth Legault and Erik Cioffi will visit the Vineyard Thursday for school tours and in-person interviews with the school committee, after which the committee will deliberate and make its final selection.
All three are from southeastern Massachusetts, according to Friday’s announcement.
Ms. Curley, who grew up in Sandwich, presently is assistant superintendent of student services for the school district in Old Rochester, Plymouth County, after previous experience at the Dennis-Yarmouth and Mashpee districts.
Over a 27-year career, Ms. Curley has worked as a paraprofessional, special education teacher, school psychologist and director of special education before taking her current post.
Ms. Legault, a former superintendent of schools in East Bridgewater, has had extensive experience with the Massachusetts School Building Authority, which is poised to collaborate with Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School on a long-sought renovation and addition.
She has been an educator for 30 years, 12 of them as a superintendent, according to the announcement.
Mr. Cioffi also has had a three-decade career in public education.
Currently assistant superintendent of human resources for the Plymouth district, he previously worked as a principal at high schools in Georgia and Florida but has family ties on the Island.
“He is eager to return to Martha’s Vineyard, where he is proud to come from a family that has called the island home for four generations, and raise his two youngest children with his wife,” according to the school committee announcement.
The search committee headed by Mr. Salop, which included school committee members and community representatives, reviewed 10 qualified applications for the superintendent’s position and held online interviews last week before choosing the three finalists.
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