Former suburban superintendents Connie Collins and Brian Harris, now with the search firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, will lead the Northwest Suburban High School District 214 search for a new superintendent. (Christopher Placek | Staff Photographer)
A Schaumburg-based national educational executive search firm will help find Superintendent David Schuler’s replacement in Northwest Suburban High School District 214.
Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates will be paid a fee equal to 20% of the new superintendent’s salary, as part of a search led by consultants Brian Harris, the retired Barrington Area Unit District 220 superintendent, and Connie Collins, the retired Round Lake Unit District 116 superintendent.
The fee also includes the recruitment and placement of an interim superintendent to oversee the district after Schuler leaves in mid-February, when he’ll become executive director of AASA, the national school superintendents association.
Schuler, who has overseen the state’s second-largest high school district for 17 years, was paid a base salary of $175,000 in his first year and makes $335,344 today. Using that salary range for his replacement, the search firm could stand to earn anywhere from $35,000 to $67,000.
A new superintendent could be selected by May — in time for the start of the new school year — under a preliminary timeline presented to the school board this week by Harris and Collins.
The search firm won’t charge for the consultants’ travel or meal expenses, but the school board can pay extra for national advertising, for third-party background checks into candidates’ court and financial records and transcript verification, as well as travel expenses for finalists brought on site, Harris said.
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