Monday, May 07, 2007

Principal likely to re-apply

When Campbell County Schools posts the opening today for a high school principal to replace Ginger Webb, it is very likely to prompt an application from Webb herself.

Webb, who replaced Anthony Strong as Campbell County High principal four years ago, said Wednesday she is leaning toward re-applying after Strong, now the district's superintendent, declined to renew her contract last week.

If she does, her paperwork will eventually land on an important desk: Anthony Strong's.
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Unless Strong rejects her application based on her qualifications to do the job - typically academic history or administrative certification - he will be required to forward it, as well as those of other qualified applicants, to the school's site-based decision-making council, which alone has authority to fill the position...

"She has that opportunity (to re-apply)," Strong said. And the high school's council has the right to reappoint her if it deems her the best candidate, he acknowledged.

"If they decide that, that's their prerogative," Strong said. " If she gets it, there's been other districts where this has happened. Certainly, if that happens, I'll work with her in a professional manner."

...The system for her reapplying is this: applications first go to the district's human resources department, which will submit a list to Strong. He can weed out any applicants who don't meet state standards.

But Strong is then required to submit that pool of qualified applicants to the council. He can make recommendations, but the decision on who replaces Webb, even if it's Webb herself, rests solely with the site-based council.

"I will try to get names to council as soon as possible," Strong said. "Somebody can start in that position July 1. Ginger is there through the end of June. There's three other assistants, so a lot of the (summer) work is done by a combination of the administrators."

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