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Ky. Board of Ed. pares field for chief down to four

July 03, 2009 @ 09:02 PM

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Board of Education has narrowed the list of candidates for state education commissioner to four candidates.

The Department of Education on Friday announced the finalists are:

— Dennis W. Cheek, senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo.

— Terry Holliday, superintendent of Iredell-Statesville Schools in Statesville, N.C.

— Catherine Cross Maple, deputy cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Public Education Department.

— Michael Sentance, who was the secretary’s regional representative at the U.S. Department of Education from 2001 to January 2009.