According to an education department spokesperson, board of regents chair Gil Dalton gave the short list of candidates to education minister Joan Burke.
If that's the case, then Dalton needs to quit immediately as chair of the board and chair of the selection committee. If Dalton is the leak - which apparently occurred last winter or this spring - then it goes along way to explaining Dalton's silence on the whole matter of the selection and Burke's interference.
If that isn't the case, then he needs to parse the details of the process and set the record straight.
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