It wasn’t a “vote,” stressed Seattle School Board president Gina Topp , but she and her colleagues agreed today that they had reached a “consensus around a preferred candidate,” who’ll be announced and identified on November 5. Topp pronounced herself “excited and hopeful” In their just-concluded meeting, which began with a half-hour-plus executive session, board members briefly discussed their preferences – still identified by number only, with candidates 7 and 8 as the two finalists they’ve interviewed behind closed doors and #7 the consensus favorite.

Board director Joe Mizrahi said candidate 7 is “blunt” and said that would be “refreshing.” Director Sarah Clark said she was impressed by the many leadership positions that candidate 7 has held. Like Topp, director Brandon Herse

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