Sell Seattle schools’ next superintendent on the job

If you had to convince someone to take the job running Seattle Public Schools, what would you say?

How would you persuade them to uproot their lives in, say, Vermont, California or Florida, and move here to become the superintendent of the nearly 50,000-student school system, with its annual multimillion-dollar budget deficits, leadership churn and urgent need to improve academics?

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It’s a tough job — albeit one that will pay between $330,000 to $385,000 annually. But, as the saying goes, somebody has to do it.

So, if you had to pitch Seattle Public Schools to someone outside of the city, what would you tell them? Why is this the job of a lifetime for the right person