Schools Chief Could Be Selected Tonight

The Attleboro School Committee will try again tonight to determine whether it wants to offer a superintendent contract to Anthony Azar or Kenneth Sheehan. The meeting will take place in Attleboro High School's Room 178E immediately following a finance subcommittee session that is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

There is great anticipation for this meeting in the community, and it could attract a large crowd, especially following last month's incident when no superintendent was chosen after the committee met for more than two hours behind closed doors in executive session. Following the session, School Committee Chair Mike Tyler announced, "There was no consensus on either finalist for the position of superintendent of the schools."

The non-decision did not sit well with some school committee members. Vice Chair Brenda Furtado said she was "disgusted."

The subject has been a hot topic of conversation in the community, with some different people favoring each of the candidates and others saying the committee should hire neither man and choose an interim superintendent for the 2013-14 school year.