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A field of 25 candidates has been narrowed to five people. The Superintendent Search Committee will meet to whittle the list even more to the finalists.
LAKE WALES — Florida’s only citywide charter-school district is undergoing a leadership convulsion of sorts 16 years after converting five of the city’s seven schools to charters and adding two charter middle schools. It also comes nine years after the state made Lake Wales a “local education agency,” which meant Lake Wales was its own school district — albeit one without elected officials who could be held accountable by voters. This school year, Jesse Jackson, the charter district's superintendent, told district officials that he would be leaving, either at...