The Los Angeles Board of Education held a private retreat Sunday to discuss the next superintendent of schools and ended up picking two executive search firms to interview.
The meeting was set up mostly as a closed-door discussion, but there was one item on which the board could have acted: giving a contract to a firm for a nationwide search for a new leader.
Five firms have applied for the job and all remain in the running. After its closed session Sunday afternoon, the board voted to pick two firms initially to interview, in public, as early as Tuesday’s regularly scheduled board meeting.