Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 | 8:30 p.m.
The Clark County school board will move ahead with three finalists who could become the next superintendent.
The Clark County school board on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, selected Jhone Ebert, Nevada state superintendent of public instruction, Ben Shuldiner, Lansing (Mich.) School District superintendent, and Jesse Welsh (not pictured), CEO of Nevada State High School, as its finalists for Clark County School District superintendent. The board will make its final decision on March 13.
The board selected Jhone Ebert, Ben Shuldiner and Jesse Welsh tonight from the four semifinalists that it interviewed over the last two nights. The three will meet with the public on March 10, at a forum tentatively set to be held at Rancho High School, and with the board for final interviews on March 11. The board plans to make its decision March 13.
Ebert is the current Nevada State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Shuldiner is currently superintendent of Lansing Public Schools in Michigan. Welsh is currently the CEO of Nevada State High School, a chain of charter schools. Ebert and Welsh also have extensive experience as CCSD educators, including in the central office.
The district, which has been without a permanent superintendent since Jesus Jara resigned a year ago, received 46 applicants for the chief position. Its search firm suggested a slate of six from the field of applicants. Of the six-person shortlist, the board kept three for this week’s interviews — Ebert, Shuldiner and former CCSD administrator John Anzalone — and declined two, while one removed himself from the running. The board also agreed to consider an applicant — Welsh — whom the search firm hadn’t selected.