Thursday, July 08, 1999
Schools scrambling to fill principal positions
BY MIRIAM SMITH
The Cincinnati Enquirer
When students in some Warren County schools report to the principal's office this fall, they'll find new faces sitting across from them.
Administrators in Kings and Lebanon are busy trying to fill principal positions because of retirements and resignations. Officials with the Franklin City Schools hired two new principals Tuesday.
At Kings, Thomas Willis, principal at Kings Junior High School, retired after serving with the district for 30 years. He is taking a principal's position at Harrison County Middle School in Kentucky.
Mike Lolli resigned as principal of Columbia Elementary School to become principal at Middletown City School's Wildwood Elementary School.
Jim Acton, former assistant principal at Kings Junior High, will move up to principal.
Superintendent David Query hopes the district will fill the two openings by July 20.
In Franklin, former Hunter
Elementary School Principal John Branson retired, and Peg Engelhardt, former principal of Anthony Wayne Elementary, resigned to become a principal with the Kettering schools near Dayton.
The district hired Steve Greenwood, formerly an assistant principal with the Mad River schools in Clark County, as principal at Hunter. Melissa Theise, formerly an assistant principal with the Fairborn City Schools, will take the helm at Anthony Wayne.
In Lebanon, Donovan Intermediate Principal Terri Tribbe resigned this spring to take a one-year leave of absence to work on a doctorate.
The shuffling comes at a time when some local, state and national educators have said they are concerned that more and more educators are shying away from administrative posts.
They are concerned that increased stress, baby-boomer retirements and salary issues may mean fewer candi dates will seek principal positions.
Many principals will retire in the next three to seven years, which may lead to a shortage, Steven Raines, executive director of the Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators, said in March.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of positions for K-12 and college administrators will increase almost 12 percent from 1996 to 2006.
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