Dr. James Warlick Hired as Interim Superintendent

by Micki Nellis

April 9 - Dr. James Warlick from Cross Plains, Texas will begin tomorrow morning, April 10, as Interim Superintendent of Cleburne ISD. Dr. Warlick will serve as Interim Superintendent until a permanent Superintendent is hired. Dr. Warlick was spending the night in Cleburne and volunteered to be on the job the next morning.

The school board voted unanimously to hire Dr. Warlick after interviewing three candidates in a three hour special called board meeting Tuesday night April 9.

Dr. Warlick retired in 2005 after serving as Superintendent of the Calallen School District in Corpus Christi for five years. He also served as Assistant Superintendent in Burleson and as Superintendent for Santo, Graford and Aledo school districts, and as Interim Superintendent at Clyde.

While at Calallen, Dr. Warlick put together a 10-member restructuring committee to handle the district’s financial problems. Members included representatives from the different campuses, businesses, parents and community members.

Board president Stu Madison said that Dr. Warlick has a good working relationship with Tom Canby, the TASBO consultant and with Henslee and Schwartz, CISD’s attorneys.

Regarding the TEA report, Stu Madison read a statement saying “The Board and Administration would like to seek immediate release of the TEA Preliminary report. However there are personnel names in the preliminary report and that issue needs to be addressed with the attorney that represents the school district and its employees. If and when that issue is resolved we anticipate that that report will be immediately released.”As to a timetable for public release Madison said “I would hope by the end of this week but I do not know.” It will be released through Lisa Magers of the CISD’s public relations department, he said.