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By Ryan Gauthier, Staff Writer Updated 2:45 AM Saturday, November 21, 2009

MIDDLETOWN — The Middletown Board of Education is scheduled to meet today, Nov. 21, to review 25 applications for the district’s superintendent position.

The board will adjourn to executive session to narrow the field of candidates provided by Boston-based recruitment firm Carney Sandoe and Associates.

The Middletown Journal put in a request for the applications Oct. 21, but was denied access to the documents under the reasoning that the school district does not have them.

District spokeswoman Debbie Alberico said the board “cannot, and has no legal duty to, provide documents that do not yet exist.”

Alberico invited Journal staff to make a new records request after today, but noted “the district and its search consultant do not plan on keeping any of those resumes in any event.”

However, board President Greg Tyus on Friday afternoon agreed that the public has a right to know who the candidates are for superintendent, but said he simply cannot produce what he does not have.

“I won’t see anything or know anything until (this) morning when (senior search consultant) Barry Rowland makes his presentation to us,” Tyus said. “The school district will turn over to the Journal and anyone else whatever we have possession of.”

Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2871  or rgauthier@coxohio.com.

Greg Tyus

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