Me, too!  I'm perfectly OK with non-local candidates but if we're going to do that, shouldn't we be trying to lure an already successful superintendent whose school system is doing really well?  This might be a bad analogy, especially for us in Hawaii, but when a university needs a new coach, you look around for successful coaches and try to lure them to your school, not someone whose team had a losing record or was fired for such a poor record.  You at least want someone who has proven him/herself.  OK, that doesn't guarantee success, but it's a far less gamble which is what I believe the BOE is doing with these candidates.