"Principal of Year" moves on Mid-Year

This from the Enquirer:

DRY RIDGE – Grant County High, which boasted the state’s principal of the year just a week ago, is now searching for a new one.

Tracey Glass-Lamb, named the high school principal of the year earlier this month by the Kentucky Association of Secondary School Principals, left the school last week to become principal at North Bullitt High in Shepherdsville. The schools are of similar size.

Monty Joe Lovell, a part-time associate principal at Grant County, will fill in as interim principal for the rest of the school year.

Glass-Lamb was in her fifth year at Grant County. She said last week North Bullitt wanted her to start as soon as possible. The school has had an interim principal since
former principal Greg Schultz became Bullitt County Public Schools’ assistant superintendent of learning last August, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Grant County Superintendent Michael Hibbett said Glass-Lamb originally intended to leave June 30.“But we wanted to help her out,” Hibbett said. “They were very eager to get her.”

Grant County’s site-based council, responsible for hiring the next principal, is accepting applications.While losing a principal during the year isn’t ideal for any school, Hibbett said he felt comfortable letting Glass-Lamb leave because of the experience at Grant County...