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Washington Post
2 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
National park superintendent resigns as Park Service staffing plunges
When Kevin Heatley took over as superintendent of Crater Lake National Park in January, he was excited to oversee one of Oregon's most iconic sites, whose stunning vistas and volcanic formations attract roughly half a million visitors each year. But after less than five months on the job, Heatley hung up his ranger's uniform Friday, citing the Trump administration's staffing cuts at the National Park Service as a major reason for his decision to take a buyout offer.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Interim WS/FCS leader faces funding chasm
A member of the N.C. State Board of Education who has experience as a superintendent is stepping in to help lead the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools deal with a deficit that has exploded in recent weeks to nearly $80 million. Catty Quiroz Moore will serve as interim superintendent while the WS/FCS Board of Education works to hire a permanent replacement for Superintendent Tricia McManus, who will retire at the end of June, WS/FCS announced Tuesday night. Moore has spent more than three decades in North Carolina public schools. She currently serves as an at-large member of the State Board of Education and recently completed a term as interim superintendent of Durham Public Schools, where she provided critical leadership during a time of fiscal uncertainty, a WS/FCS press release said. From 2018 to 2023, Moore was the superintendent of the Wake County Public School System, the largest district in North Carolina. 'Fiscal uncertainty' barely begins to describe the problems facing WS/FCS, which have compounded alarmingly the past two months. What had been announced in March as an $8 million deficit facing the school district for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, now has become $42 million, according to a May 22 letter McManus sent the State Board of Education. The school board will entirely drain its unspent reserves and will still owe the state of North Carolina $18 million, the letter said. In addition, what had been in March a projected $16 million deficit in the fiscal year that begins July 1 has more than doubled. McManus told the school board Tuesday more than $23 million in cuts, which include a reduction of over 200 positions, has been identified for the 2025-26 fiscal year, but school officials are seeking another $13 million. Among cuts under consideration, McManus said: Eliminating transportation for elementary and middle school students attending choice, or magnet, schools would save the district $3.5 million; increasing class sizes by one student would save approximately $3.5 million; and increasing class sizes by two students would save about $6.6 million. Other possible measures include not completely covering employees' dental insurance, which the district currently does; eliminating out-of-state travel; eliminating staff cellphones; doing only black-and-white printing; and ending the waxing of school floors except for corridors. Two school board members, Robert Barr and Susan Miller, called for firing McManus and said that Chief Financial Officer Thomas Kranz should have been fired rather than allowed to resign on May 9. Barr said he often hears from local residents upset about the district's budget shortfalls. 'Our CFO was allowed to resign. In reality, he should not have been able to resign,' Barr said. 'He should be terminated.' Miller suggested firing McManus on the spot, but her motion violated the school board's rules of order, so it did not come to a vote. Board member Richard Watts called suggestion of firing McManus 'political grandstanding.' In a press conference after the meeting, board vice chair Alex Bohannon said firing McManus would be an overreaction. 'I think it can be very easy to look at ... the simple solution, which is, 'I need to find a single person to be able to blame for this, and then I need to hold them accountable and hold their feet to the fire,' and I understand that completely,' Bohannon said. 'I also would say that, like school system finance, the answer to that is really nuanced.'
BBC News
7 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Leicestershire Police officer reunited with hat after 23 years
When PC Paul Allen lost his police hat more than 20 years ago, he assumed he would never see it again. However, the now superintendent had a call this month to say it had been found - in a hat was discovered by a member of the public at Ibstock Quarry, 14 miles (22.5km) away from where Supt Allen last saw it in Leicester city said the hat was in "really good condition", and added "it really is a prized possession". Supt Allen said: "I was out on patrol one Saturday night all those years ago."Me and a colleague were sent to an incident in the city centre and we ended up sitting a young lad in the back of the car."We got back to the station at about three o'clock in the morning and realised the hat was gone. It seemed someone wanted to have a souvenir of their night."More than 20 years had passed when Allen got the call to say his hat had been found - in fact it had been so long that he did not realise at first that it was his long-lost hat. "I got a phone call to say they had found a hat in an Ibstock quarry with PC429 and Allen wrote on it, but we have lots of hats over the years so the penny didn't drop," he said."It has the old badge which we don't have anymore. It doesn't seem like it's been outside for very long."It is special, when I joined we were moving to all new equipment so it's nice to have something from that time back."We might hand it over to our archivist because this story is probably worth telling again when I retire but for now it is sitting on the shelves in my office."
CBS News
7 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Centennial School District board in Pennsylvania votes to approve Abram Lucabaugh as superintendent
In a 5-4 vote, the Centennial School District board approved Abram Lucabaugh as the system's new superintendent during a meeting Tuesday night. Lucabaugh was previously the superintendent at Central Bucks School District, where his tenure drew controversy over policies banning Pride flags and certain books. Lucabaugh said during a school board meeting last week that he would not advocate for those controversial policies in Centennial. Parents and taxpayers in the school district urged the board to reject Lucabaugh's appointment. A group of parents protested when Lucabaugh spoke during last week's meeting. "This process has not been fair or transparent in any way at any step of the journey," parent Nicole Lynch said at last week's meeting.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Former Seminole Schools Superintendent Paul Hagerty dies at 86
Former Superintendent Paul Hagerty, who led Seminole County Public Schools for a decade and whose name graces one of its high schools, died May 20. He was 86. Hagerty ran SCPS from 1992 to 2002 and was the district's first superintendent hired by the school board rather than elected by voters. After his retirement, the Seminole County School Board named a new high school after him — Hagerty High School near Oviedo, which opened in 2004. During Hagerty's tenure in Seminole, he helped the school district pass a school sales tax, negotiate the end of the federal government's 1970 school desegregation order and open 14 new campuses. He called his time in Seminole the 'highlight' of his 42-year education career which he began as a high school math teacher in his hometown of Milwaukee. A devout Catholic, his sons said his faith motivated him to help others. He grew up in a poor family and watched his mother work multiple jobs to provide for him and his two sisters and pay for their schooling, which made him realize how important education was to upward economic mobility. Though educated in Catholic schools, he dedicated himself to public education. 'His mission in life is ensuring that everyone had free access to the best education,' his son Timothy Hagerty said. Hagerty was born July 25, 1939 in Milwaukee. During high school, he worked as a janitor to help his family out financially. He was accepted into Marquette University and received a basketball scholarship, but gave up basketball so he could work more and help put his sisters through school, his son Patrick Hagerty said. 'He knew how important education was for society and for himself,' he said. 'You're sort of born into your economic condition, and you're stuck there and seeing education as a means to to grow and succeed in life.' While at Marquette he met his wife, Nancy, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at a dance held by a local church. Timothy said it took a while for his father to ask her out because he was embarrassed that he didn't have a car. 'The way my mother told it was almost like Cinderella, that when the dance was ending, he just disappeared every night,' he said. 'He ended up borrowing a friend's car and it bloomed from that.' The two married in 1961, the same year he graduated from Marquette. He would later earn two master's degrees from Marquette and a doctorate degree from Florida State University. His retirement from Seminole marked the end of his education career. He'd previously been a superintendent in Georgia and Missouri school districts. In Seminole, he told his family he was most proud of how he'd helped modernize the district's technology and negotiate the end to the federal government's desegregation order, which the U.S. Department of Justice imposed because the district was still running segregated schools in 1970. That effort involved rebuilding campuses and upgrading academics at schools in the Sanford area, which then lagged academically. 'That was something that he really had to engage lots of different communities to say 'This is the right thing to do, and this is why we're doing it',' Patrick Hagerty said. Hagerty received numerous awards over the years, including superintendent-of-the-year honors in Missouri and Florida. He was very involved in his church throughout his life, his sons said. He served as the first chairman of the pastoral council at Most Precious Blood Catholic Church in Oviedo and in 2018 was awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice papal honor for outstanding service to the Catholic Church. He was a voracious reader and he and Nancy loved to travel and to play duplicate bridge. A funeral Mass will take place Wednesday at the Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore, where he had lived with his son Patrick since 2022. Nancy Hagerty died in 2020. Hagerty will then be interred at 2 p.m. Thursday beside Nancy at Queen of Angels Catholic Cemetery in Winter Park. He is also survived by his daughter Kathy Hagerty, his son Dan Hagerty, four grandchildren and his two sisters.
