The phrase "acting administrators" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals who are temporarily fulfilling the role of administrators, often in the absence of the regular administrators.
Example: "During the transition period, the acting administrators will oversee the daily operations of the organization."
Alternatives: "interim administrators" or "temporary administrators".
The Board of Education regularly boasts of its 78,000 teachers in publications and on its Web site (www.nycenet.edu), but board officials admit that, in fact, many of those 78,000 are acting administrators and other educators with a teaching license who never spend time in a classroom.
Leadership support was provided by the U.S. EPA administrators, acting administrators, and deputy administrators William Ruckelshaus, Russell Train, Robert Fri, and John Quarles, along with assistant administrators Robert Sansom and Stanley Greenfield.
The so-called Vacancies Act usually allows the president to fill vacancies in advice-and-consent positions with temporary "acting" administrators.
"They've indicated to me that they have authority in this area," said Robert Shea, acting administrator of FEMA's federal insurance and mitigation administration.
Steven Aitken, acting administrator of the OMB office that issued the guidelines, says that the Bush Administration "will not finalize the guidelines in their current form.
She has been acting administrator of the agency since last month.
After Ms. Whitman stepped down, her deputy, Linda Fischer, became acting administrator.
She has been acting administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since December 2011.
Under the agreement with Promesa, Mr. Medina will become Banana Kelly's acting administrator.
JOHN J. WILSON Washington, April 30 , 2001The writer is acting administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Justice Dept.
His deputy, Samuel J. Coleman, is now acting administrator for the region, which includes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and 66 tribal nations.
