GREENUP —
Greenup County High School is looking for a new principal to take over a three-year effort to dig the school out of its persistently low achieving status.
The new chief will replace Sue Davis, who is leaving for a position at the Kentucky Educational Development Corp. Today is her last day.
The school is in the second year of a three-year turnaround process that started when the Kentucky Department of Education identified Greenup County as one of 10 persistently low achieving schools. The designation was based on test scores in reading and mathematics.
When that happened the school had to come up with an improvement plan and was given a three-year timeline to bring up scores or face further sanctions.
Superintendent Steve Hall said he is looking for someone already familiar with the turnaround process and with Greenup County education. “They will have to have done their homework on Greenup County,” he said.
Davis’ successor also will have to have a firm command of Kentucky’s revamped accountability system and its college and career readiness requirements, he said.
Coming at the start of a new school year, Davis’ resignation was a surprise. “We had hoped she would be there all three years (of the turnaround). She was the right person at the right time,” he said. “The timing of the transition is probably not the most advantageous.”
However, he and Davis have worked with assistant principals during her tenure and Hall is counting on them to keep up the turnaround momentum. He has appointed Assistant Principal Jason Smith as interim principal. Smith was a teacher and coach in the district for several years and Davis hired him as an assistant administrator about a year ago, Hall said.
Hall will choose the new principal. Usually that is a job for the school council, but the council was stripped of its decision-making capacity when Greenup was hit with the low-achieving status.
Whether the council will have a role in vetting applicants is unclear, but Hall said he would keep members apprised during the process.
Hall hopes to hire someone within 30 days but said he doesn’t have a time limit. Applicants may come from inside or outside the district; Hall said he anticipates at least two applications from within the district.
MIKE JAMES can be reached at mjames@dailyindependent.com or
(606) 326-2652.
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