Bill would alter job requirements state schools superintendent

MONTGOMERY – The state’s new superintendent of education couldn’t have been hired under a lawmaker’s proposed requirements for the job.

Sen. Gerald Dial has prefiled a bill for the 2017 legislative session that would require the state’s top educator to have recent classroom or school administration experience.

Michael Sentance was selected state superintendent by the Alabama State Board of Education in August, despite not having any in-school experience.

“I thought it was ironic that we could have someone being (state) superintendent who couldn’t be a superintendent in a local system,” Dial, R-Lineville, said Friday.

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