By Bill Bush and Shannon Gilchrist, The Columbus Dispatch
COLUMBUS – Columbus City Schools Superintendent Dan Good will retire in December, setting in motion a search for his replacement to lead Ohio’s largest school district.
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But he implied that, at age 55, he might not be ready to really retire.
“I don’t know what’s next for me,” he said following a hastily called press conference Thursday morning. “I don’t think you always know.
“I think what’s important (is) when you understand when there’s a fit, and where there’s obviously a value proposition where you can add, and how you can be supportive.”
Good said he first was going to decompress, spend time with family, and take his mother on a
cruise and visit relatives in Alaska. But come next spring, he doesn’t know what he’ll be doing.
Asked about his relationship with his bosses on the Columbus Board of Education, he responded: “We have a business relationship. I think we have a good relationship.” He gave his notice to the board on Aug. 1, he said.
There is no bad relationship between the board and Good that led to the parting of ways, said Board President Gary Baker. The board had been developing a new evaluation system for Good, involving a consultant, which it signed with him Wednesday, but that was unrelated.
“No, we’ve been discussing that for a while,” Baker said. “We were all very excited about that, including him.