The Kenosha Unified School Board will continue its negotiations with a Rochester City (N.Y.) School District administrator who is in line to be Unified’s next superintendent.

Michele Hancock, the chief of human capital initiatives for the Rochester district, and the Unified board began contract negotiations last week, according to an informed source within the district.

Negotiations were expected to continue today or until a contract can be finalized, School Board President Pam Stevens said late Tuesday. Stevens would neither comment on the candidate nor give further details of any proposals exchanged.

“It’s really between the attorneys right now,” she said.

In 2008, Hancock earned a doctorate of education in executive leadership from St. John Fisher College in Rochester. Her dissertation was on “Teacher Leadership in Urban Elementary Schools — How Teacher Leaders Collaborate to Recognize and Challenge Deficit Thinking.”

Hancock, who has been with the Rochester district for at least the last decade, has also been its chief of diversity and an elementary principal.

As a principal of John Williams School No. 5 she led the transformation of the lowest-performing K-6 school to “national prominence for culture change and student achievement,” according to her resume.

The school was featured in the book “Schools that Change: Evidence-based Improvement and Effective Change Leadership” in 2008. The school has been awarded local, state and national recognition for its marked improvement.