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School board President Chris Valentine said the process moved quickly because of familiarity with Marschhausen: He was the "targeted" candidate because he had interviewed for the Dublin superintendent job in 2013 before accepting the same post at Hilliard City Schools when both districts were shopping for a new leader at the same time, and he had remained well-known because the neighboring districts often collaborate.
But a multitude of emails obtained through a records request and sent directly to
ThisWeek communicated some unease about the process and timeline.
The emails among Valentine, other board members and school district residents, after Hoadley announced at a school board meeting March 8 that he was stepping down as superintendent, illustrate a concern for a lack of transparency, the swiftness at which the search was executed, the exclusion of a greater number of stakeholders’ involvement in the process and the hiring of a consulting firm co-owned by a former Dublin district official even while the board made it known Marschhausen was No. 1 on the list.