LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Clark County School District is expected to have a new superintendent Thursday night to lead the fifth-largest school district in the country.
The School Board of Trustees is scheduled to name the new superintendent Thursday evening during a regular school board meeting. Whoever is chosen will be the district’s permanent leader following former Superintendent Jesus Jara’s resignation in February 2024.
More than 40 people applied for the top job. In recent weeks, following candidate interviews and a public forum, the candidate list was whittled down from five to three: Jhone Ebert, Ben Shuldiner and Jesse Welsh.
Ebert is the Nevada Superintendent of Public Instruction and was reappointed by Governor Lombardo in January 2023. Before holding that position, she was the senior deputy commissioner for education policy in New York State. She was also chief innovation and productivity officer in Clark County from 2013-2015.
Sculdiner is currently serving as the superintendent of the Lansing School District in Michigan. Prior to that, he was a dean’s fellow and distinguished lecturer in New York, NY at Hunter College. While at Hunter College, he was a board member for the New York City School District, the largest district in the U.S. His experience includes being a history department chair, teacher and principal in Brooklyn, NY.
Walsh is the CEO of a Nevada State High School, a charter school, and started working with CCSD more than 20 years ago as a math and Spanish teacher. He became a dean, coordinator for the northwest region and then an assistant superintendent. He was the superintendent for the Paradise Valley Unified School District in Phoenix, Arizona from June 2019 to December 2020.
