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Lexington City Schools seeking feedback to guide search for new superintendent

Lexington City Schools Superintendent Nakia Hardy
Amy Diaz
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WFDD
Lexington City Schools Superintendent Nakia Hardy has accepted a new role.

Jan. 5 is the last day to submit feedback to Lexington City Schools on the search for a new superintendent.

Superintendent Nakia Hardy announced last month that she was leaving the district to accept a new role with Franklin County Schools.

Since then, Lexington City Schools has been seeking input from students, parents, staff and community members on what they’d like to see in the next leader.

Surveys are available on the district’s website. Officials are also welcoming written statements from local organizations. Those can be emailed to the North Carolina School Boards Association, which is facilitating the search.

The NCSBA will summarize and present the feedback at the district’s school board meeting next week.

An interim superintendent, Rodney Howard Shotwell, will take over for Hardy on Jan. 20 as the district looks for a permanent replacement. He led Rockingham County Schools for 16 years before retiring in 2022.

Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.