SEQUIM – Kirk Miller, superintendent of Havre School District in Havre, Mont., has withdrawn from consideration for the Sequim School District superintendent position.
Miller, who visited Sequim last Thursday, was one of three candidates under consideration for the position.
Havre School District has about 1,952 students, 800 fewer students than in the Sequim School District
He said his reason for withdrawing was that he wished to remain in Montana.
Miller is also a finalist for the superintendent position in the Bozeman School District in Montana.
The final interview in Bozeman is May 9.
The Sequim School District Board will evaluate the other two candidates during an executive session at 7 tonight.
Action could be taken in open session at the end of the meeting.
The candidates are Bill Bentley, assistant superintendent at Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Wash., and Bette Bullock, superintendent at Lake County School District in Leadville, Colo.
Each of the candidates was in town last week for daylong meetings to meet the community and board of Sequim School District, which has about 2,800 students.
The candidates were selected from a pool of five finalists who were interviewed by the School Board and a group of about 20 community members.
The observers include representatives from each school as well as other district staff, parents and other community members.
Sequim Superintendent Garn Christensen is leaving to become superintendent of the 5,200-student Eastmont School District in East Wenatchee in July.
Christensen is the second Clallam County schools superintendent who has announced he will depart at the end of the school year.
In January, Quillayute Valley School District Superintendent Frank Walter said that he is resigning after six years at the helm to marry his fiancee, an educator in Lakewood in Pierce County.
The Quillayute Valley School Board has named the district’s director of student services, Diana Reaume, to replace Walter.
