Last January, Bob Nelson announced his plans to retire as superintendent of the Fresno Unified School District at the end of the 2023-24 school year.
One year after that announcement, California’s third-largest school district remains without a permanent leader.
The next Fresno Unified superintendent will lead a massive school system of 15,700 employees and more than 68,000 students. They will be tasked with finding solutions to seemingly endemic challenges, from declining enrollment to pandemic learning loss and yawning gaps in student achievement…