Covington Independent Public Schools has appointed Cortnei Flucas, an educational professional from Indianapolis, as the district’s new superintendent. She will assume the role at the end of the current school year, taking over from current Superintendent Alvin Garrison. The Board of Education declined to reappoint Garrison last summer.
“I hope to demonstrate in my leadership a strong desire to listen and learn and be responsive to the needs and the desires of the community,” Flucas told LINK nky.
The move follows an (unusually) long process of recruiting and public input. The Covington Board of Education contracted with Chicago-based consulting firm Alma Advisory Group in September to head up the search process for a new candidate, which included a long public input process that employed online surveys, public community input sessions and focus groups to gather data about what the community wanted in its new superintendent…