Plan for running new school presented

The school board got its first look at a plan for administrators for the new school complex.

Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Dennis Carlson told the board that the new school will need two principals, a vice principal/dean of students and a part-time athletic director.

Principal Lisa Lakin will administer grades K-6, including pre-school.

The district is currently advertising for a combined junior high-senior high principal.

Current high school principal Brandon Byers has indicated that he has already applied to continue his service in the district.

A vice-principal/dean of students, with a master’s degree requirement, would be in charge of discipline, attendance and ASB management, and provide backup in grades 7-12.

Carlson noted that this plan would “enhance student discipline, activities and learning, while improving the professional development of the teaching staff.”

The district currently has three full-time principals for its three buildings. It will drop one principal position in the new school alignment, but add a vice-principal/dean of student position because the high school section will have at least 100 more students with the addition of the junior high seventh- and eighth-grade classes.

Debbie Cook, with the North Central Educational Service District, who manages the school district’s finances, said the state has piled on so many additional duties over the past few years that the administrative plan was really necessary.

The board asked Cook to develop financial numbers so the members could get a picture of the cost of the administrative plan.