PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green says she hopes to select an interim superintendent for the Providence public schools by the end of the week.

Former Superintendent Harrison Peters was pressured to resign last week after coming under fire for hiring a school administrator who was charged with the misdemeanor simple assault for allegedly fondling a teenage boy’s foot at a gym in April.

Infante-Green on Tuesday told The Providence Journal her office will move swiftly to appoint an interim superintendent to keep the district functioning.

That will be followed by a search for a permanent superintendent.