Rep. Randall Shedd

Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a House committee resolution urging the Alabama State Board of Education to conduct a national search for a new superintendent of education.

State Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Cullman, chairs the House Urban and Rural Development Committee, which passed the resolution and sent it to Ivey.

“We’re asking those members to find us a Nick Saban/Gus Malzahn caliber superintendent. Simply put, we want the best in the nation,” Shedd said in a prepared statement. 

The resolution states that “improving the quality of education throughout Alabama should be the guiding force in this search for new leadership for the State Board of Education” and that the search and recruitment for the most highly qualified person to be superintendent should be done “by any means necessary.”

“We want Alabama’s education system to be at the top,” Shedd said.

In addition to Shedd, the resolution was sponsored by Reps. David Standridge, R-Hayden, Danny Crawford, R-Athens, Rich Wingo, R-Tuscaloosa, Thomas Jackson, D-Thomasville, Prince Chestnut, D-Selma, Bob Fincher, R-Woodland, Ralph Howard, D-Greensboro, and Margie Wilcox, R-Mobile.