Boston school leaders and community members interview three finalists under consideration for Boston Public Schools superintendent this week. Read highlights from the interviews with Marie Izquierdo and Brenda Cassellius.
In the race to become the next superintendent of Boston Public Schools, no finalist knows Boston better than Oscar Santos.
Santos is the only BPS alumnus among the three finalists (he graduated from Boston Latin School) and the only former Boston teacher and principal. (He’s certainly the only one whose photograph appeared on the front of the Boston Herald, alongside an open letter.)
But Santos’s most recent work has been as principal of Cathedral High, a small Catholic school in Boston’s South End, and as superintendent of Randolph Public Schools — with approximately 2,800 students. Unlike Izquierdo or Cassellius, he has never held a comparable state or big-city post.