Principal resigns

Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School principal Brandon Byers has resigned.

The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors accepted Byers’ resignation at a special meeting Monday night.

Byers said Tuesday that he has accepted a position as assistant principal at Frontier Middle School in Moses Lake. Byers graduated from Moses Lake High School in 2002 and has several family members there.

Leaving is “bittersweet,” Byers stated, and referred to the many fine staff members he has been associated with here, adding, “But it is the right step for my career.”

At Frontier Middle School Byers will be active with leadership students and the associated student body. The school has about 800 students in grades 6-8.

Byers came to the district in 2008 as an English teacher and was principal of the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School for half a year before moving up to being principal at the high school. He is completing two years there.

Byers is a graduate of Central Washington University and Whitworth where he completed his master’s degree.