Charity Smith, a former assistant commissioner for school accountability for the Arkansas Department of Education, is an applicant for the superintendent's job in the North Little Rock School District, a vacancy that will be created by the June 30 retirement of Superintendent Kelly Rodgers.
Smith joins an applicant pool of 14 others from Arkansas and across the country whose names were reported in a previous news account.
Smith is currently a principal education associate for Fetterman & Associates, a California school-improvement consulting firm. She worked in various positions in the Arkansas Education Department from 1994 to 2011. Before that, she was a principal in the Little Rock School District.
The North Little Rock School Board could begin deciding how to proceed with the selection of a superintendent as soon as Thursday, when it holds its regular monthly business meeting beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Metro on 04/19/2018