PEABODY — The candidate under consideration to become the city's new special education director will be interviewed next Tuesday.
The public is invited to the interview, which is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Kiley School on Johnson Street. It will precede the regular meeting of the School Committee.
Committee members will question Steven Stone, the executive director of special education for Dracut Public Schools since 2005. Dracut is a 4,200-student school system.
Stone graduated from Northeastern University in 1995, having majored in history and minored in management. He went on to receive a Master of Education degree, with a focus on special education, from Cambridge College. For a certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies, he also took special education administration and educational leadership courses at Cambridge College.
Stone's ré©sumé© includes stops in Beverly, where he was a special education teacher from 1997 until 2001, and Somerville, where he was the pupil personnel director and elementary school principal of the Prospect Hill Academy Charter School until 2005.
According to his ré©sumé©, Stone was also a lecturer at Endicott College in Beverly. From 2001 to 2003, he conducted special education lectures for novice regular education students.
Peabody is a district with 6,093 students. Nineteen percent of its student population is classified as special education, data compiled by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education indicates.
Stone is Superintendent C. Milton Burnett's recommendation for the position. If the committee votes for his appointment, Stone would succeed Patricia Bullard, who recently resigned. In June 2008, the committee voted to hire Bullard on the same night as her interview.
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