The Wu administration and the city’s school committee this week laid out the timeline for finding Boston’s next superintendent of schools.

A 9-member search committee will oversee the hunt for the new superintendent, who will take over for Dr. Brenda Cassellius, the head of the school system since 2019.

The Boston Public Schools system plans to hire a search firm to help with the hiring of a new schools chief. A request for proposals from search firms was released last week, and search firms face a March 18 deadline to respond.

The School Committee is expected to pick a search firm by April 6.

In between, there will be the following listening sessions:

Wed., March 9, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (public listening session)
Tues., March 15, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (public listening session for Spanish speakers)
Thurs., March 24, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (student listening session)
Sat., April 2, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. (public listening session)

Between April and May, the search firm is slated to vet and run background checks on candidates, while the search committee will be tasked with reviewing applications and picking candidates to interview behind closed doors.

Final candidates are expected to be made public in early June. They will be publicly interviewed mid-June, and the search committee could make a recommendation, with a school committee vote to follow on a job offer, in late June.

The nine-member search committee includes:

Pam Eddinger, president of Bunker Hill Community College
Roxi Harvey, Chair of the BPS Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SpEdPAC)
Lorena Lopera, parent and School Committee member
Marcus McNeill, Fenway High School student
Michael O’Neill, financial services executive and School Committee vice chair
Dr. Carline Pignato, Head of Hyde Park’s Channing Elementary School
Gene Roundtree, BPS secondary school superintendent
Jessica Tang, Boston Teachers Union president
José Valenzuela, Boston Latin Academy teacher

More information on the listening sessions and the search is available here.