The Michigan Department of Education is holding a board meeting today and is scheduled to review the applications of those hoping to become the state’s next school superintendent.
There are 44 applicants for the job.
Previous Superintendent Brian Whiston passed away last spring.
The eight member Board of Education, which will appoint the new superintendent, will today review all of the applications, and then select those that will be invited in for public interviews.
The job pays 216-thousand dollars a year, but has many challenges.
Among them, a study by Michigan State University researchers that found Michigan students are performing at a level among the bottom ten percent of all states.