Colorado Education Commissioner Dwight Jones was selected as superintendent of the nation’s fifth largest school district on Wednesday, when Clark County, Nev., board members picked him to be their leader.
The board voted 6-1 to select Jones over Dallas Superintendent Michael Hinojosa for the job leading the school district that includes Las Vegas.
The lone “no” vote was from Trustee Linda E. Young, who said she disagreed with the process, not Jones as superintendent.
Jones, 48, on Wednesday has not publicly said whether he would accept the job but told the Clark County Board of Trustees in interviews last week that “I would love the opportunity to be your next superintendent.”
Jones has been commissioner since June 2007 and was superintendent of the 6,500-student Fountain-Fort Carson School District before that.
