Wednesday, March 7, 2012
School officials have narrowed an applicant pool of around 40 to six and will be conducting interviews with these six SHS principal candidates this week.
By the third week of March, Stoughton Public Schools officials will have a “very good idea of who the next high school principal will be,” Deputy Superintendent of Schools Jonathan Ford said at a February 28 School Committee meeting. With O’Donnell Middle School principal Wayne Hester retiring at end of this school year and Stoughton High principal Matthew Colantonio becoming principal at the OMS next school year, there is a vacancy in the top post at SHS. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marguerite Rizzi said the school department received about 40 applications for SHS principal. The 40 applicants were narrowed down to a field of seven candidates. Six accepted and expressed interest in remaining in contention for the principal position. …
Friday, November 25, 2011
Welcome to "About Town with Mark Snyder," a column that will keep you up to the minute with what's what, who's who and what's going on around town. If you see or hear something we could use here, let us know by sending an e-mail to pmpco@aol.com.
RIZZI CONTRACT REAFFIRMED: The Stoughton School Committee responded to the finding of the State's Attorney General's Office that the September 2010 executive session meeting where Dr. Rizzi was given a contract extension was illegal. So, at the November 22, 2011 Stoughton School Committee meeting, the School Committee--this time in a legal open session--reaffirmed the four year contract extention (until 2016) for Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marguerite Rizzi, by a 3-0 vote, with two abstentions. Tom Colburn made the motion, and it was seconded by Deborah Sovinee. Chair Joyce Husseini joined them in the vote. Allan Mills abstained (at the time of the original September 2010 vote, Mills did not participate in the executive session because …
Thursday, October 27, 2011
This is another installment of our Patch spotlight of different Town of Stoughton employees. This week, meet Jonathan Ford, the Assistant Superintendent of the Stoughton Public Schools.
Editor's Note: After a hiatus, the Town Employee Spotlight returns to Stoughton Patch, profiling a dedicated town employee whose hard work contributes to the continued betterment of our community. Have anyone you would like to see featured as part of this series? Let us know by emailing jeffrey.pickette@patch.com. *** Jonathan Ford, Assistant Superintendent, Stoughton School Department Jonathan Ford and his wife of 11 years, Heather, moved to Massachusetts seven years ago from their Buffalo, N.Y. home. They ultimately settled in Hull, where Ford taught high school physics and chemistry, before becoming principal of Hull High. Now, Ford is in his third year as Assistant Superintendent of the Stoughton Public Schools. Superintendent of …
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8:13 am on Saturday, November 26, 2011
Thanks for your reply Jeffrey. At $140K, her salary was below average, but she was also new to the position. If the SC felt she deserved the raise based solely on merit then I feel much better about it. I personally feel good administrators are few and far between and I feel it prudent to retain talent with competitive compensation. I would still be interested however, in learning more about how … more ›