The Fresno Unified School Board has scheduled a special meeting at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to discuss appointing an interim superintendent.

It will be a rare morning board meeting for the trustees, who typically meet in the evenings to accommodate public participation.

The district had said in a January news release announcing the resignation of Superintendent Bob Nelson that Deputy Superintendent Misty Her was “anticipated” to serve as interim superintendent if the School Board has not selected Nelson’s successor by July 31.

Nelson is leaving the district to take a faculty job at Fresno State.

Her was said to have had an inside track on being appointed superintendent after a board majority agreed in March in closed session to conduct interviews initially of only internal candidates. After public outcry, the board voted 5-2 in open session at an April 3 special meeting to cancel the scheduled candidate interviews.

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Wednesday’s meeting will be held in the Education Center at M and Tulare streets in downtown Fresno and will begin with providing the public the opportunity to comment on the agenda item before the trustees go into closed session. The trustees are tentatively scheduled to conclude the closed session by 10:30 a.m. and return to the open session, where they will announce any action taken during the closed session.

Trustee Elizabeth Jonasson Rosas will attend the meeting virtually.

After Monday night’s facilities workshop, the trustees went into closed session and then reemerged at 9 p.m. Board President Susan Wittrup reported that the board was “developing a plan for the selection of an interim superintendent and will have a status report early next month.”