Hoover City Schools names new superintendent
Hoover names new superintendent By Randi Hildreth | April 29, 2021 at 6:31 AM CDT - Updated April 29 at 6:32 AM
HOOVER, Ala. (WBRC) - Hoover City School leaders appointed a new superintendent during a special called meeting Wednesday.
The board voted 4 to 1 to recommend hiring Dr. Dee Fowler as the district’s next leader with the board president requesting authority from the board to negotiate a 3-year contract.
The board recently decided to not move forward in hiring any of the five finalists for the superintendent job during the last search. The board president says Dr. Fowler’s name came up several times during the search process even though he was a retired superintendent and not an applicant.
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It didn’t have to happen, either.
It was yet another curious search. To many, curiously clandestine, too.
Yet it didn’t have to happen. Not this way.
At a special call meeting late Wednesday afternoon, the Hoover City Schools Board, which summarily and surprisingly rejected five finalists earlier this month, named retired educator Dee Fowler as the next Hoover City Schools Superintendent, pending the negotiation of a three-year contract.
Fowler, a former superintendent at Madison City Schools, did not apply for the opening and was never publicly interviewed.
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Phenix City Schools Superintendent Randy Wilkes interviews with the Hoover Board of Education for the Hoover City Schools superintendent job at the Farr Administration Building on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Ã
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Phenix City Schools Superintendent Randy Wilkes interviews with the Hoover Board of Education for the Hoover City Schools superintendent job at the Farr Administration Building on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Ã
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Phenix City Schools Superintendent Randy Wilkes talks with Hoover Board of Education President Deanna Bamman after interviewing for the Hoover City Schools superintendent job at the Farr Administration Building on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.
Hoover school board eyes theater upgrades for Hoover, Spain Park
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Hoover school officials are considering building a new theater at Hoover High School, shown here in red to the left of the new band room at the school in Hoover, Alabama. Ã
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Hoover school officials are considering building a 1,276-seat theater at Hoover High School. This design concept shows a possible layout of the main level of the facility. It also would include a balcony level. Ã
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Hoover school officials are considering building a 1,276-seat theater at Hoover High School. This design concept shows a possible layout for the balcony level of the facility.