GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — The Green Bay Area School District Board will offer the Superintendent job to Stephen Murley, the current Superintendent of the Iowa City, Iowa school district.
Murley told WTAQ on Monday that he has every intention of accepting that offer.
“I’m very excited about it, I’m really looking forward to coming in and joining the team,” Murley said. “I guess it kind of feels like slipping into a comfortable jacket.”
That comfort makes sense: he was ties to the area, both personally and professionally. He’s the former superintendent of the Wausau school district and a graduate of Oshkosh West High School.
One of Murley’s first orders of business is to improve and expand on post-secondary options for current high school students to give them a better idea of career paths moving out of high school.
“We had some great luck [in Iowa City] in helping the state understand their role in funding some of those post-secondary options,” Murley said Monday. “I know there’s already work that has been done [in Green Bay] in working with the technical college and UW-Green Bay.”
Murley edged out Dr. Sonia Stewart, an administrator in the Metro Nashville Public School System in Tennessee, for the job.
“The Board was fortunate to have two very qualified individuals from which to choose,” stated Board Trustee Eric Vanden Heuvel, who led the superintendent search on behalf of the Board of Education, in a press release. “The Board very much appreciates all of the feedback we received from staff, parents and community members. The decision to offer the position of superintendent to Stephen Murley was due to his breadth of experience serving as a superintendent, successfully leading the Iowa City Community School District through significant challenges, which are very similar to the work currently underway in the Green Bay Area Public School District.”
Murley is expected to start in July. He will replace Dr. Michele Langenfeld, who announced her retirement last year.
