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A Tulsa School Board member is ready to call off the search for a new superintendent.
Dr. Jerry Griffin says he would like Interim Superintendent Dr. Ebony Johnson to fill the role permanently.
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Dr. Griffin wants to do away with the search committee so that when the district receives the state audit results, Johnson is in a position to address it head-on. “She’s an engine raring to go and we’re holding her back by calling her the interim,” Dr. Griffin said. “She works well with Superintendent Walters, I think they make a good team, and just from my personal conversations with her, she just wants to do so much to change the status quo and she can’t do it
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Dr. Ebony Johnson said in a previous interview that it is a dream and an honor to serve the TPS district as the interim after 24 years of working in the district and graduating from TPS. Dr. Jerry Griffin says there is a meeting scheduled next week to further discuss the search process for the new superintendent.