WESTFIELD – School Committee Vice-Chair Ramon Diaz, Jr. announced Friday that the meeting to vote on the candidate to be the new Superintendent of Westfield Public Schools has been moved to Thursday at 6 p.m. in City Council chambers.
The dates for the other public meetings remain the same. On Monday, a public forum will be held beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers where each candidate will have an hour to make a public statement, answer questions, and to meet and greet those who are present.
On Tuesday, the School Committee will interview each candidate for an hour in City Council chambers, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with 15-minute breaks in between. This meeting will be open to the public and televised live on Channel 15, and aired again beginning at noon on Wednesday.
The selection will then be made on Thursday. Finalists for the position are Stefan Czaporowski, principal of the Westfield Technical Academy, Jennifer Willard, director of human resources for Westfield Public Schools and Elizabeth Zielinski, superintendent of the King Philip Regional School District in Norfolk, Mass. Both Willard and Zielinski are also finalists in the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional Schools superintendent search process, which will also be meeting next week.
