School Board Approves Staff Changes for Principals, Others at Waukesha Schools

The Waukesha School Board approved the following staffing changes at its recent meeting:

• A leave of absence for personal reasons effective December 1 until the end of the year for Meadowbrook Elementary School Principal Don Charpentier and his resignation following the leave of absence.
• Jessica Wagner, currently the assistant principal at , will serve as interim principal at Meadowbrook. Steve Fisher, currently district fine arts coordinator, will serve as interim assistant principal at Horning in lieu of Wagner.
• The board also approved new contracts or contract modifications for Joshua Hoffman, fifth grade teacher at , to replace a teacher who is on a leave of absence; and for Tom Clark, seventh grade teacher at , to replace teacher .  
• The board also approved the resignations of Horning/South School Psychologist Rebecca Haggith and Penni Uribe, English teacher at .

New Staff for Virtual School

In another staffing matter, the school board approved a logistics and marketing manager for eAchieve Academy.

The staff member’s immediate responsibility will be to recruit students for the 2012-13 school year. Currently, this task is handled by K12, the district’s partner in providing the virtual education, however next year the district will.

Previously, . Next year, instead of , the school will be called eAchieve Academy. The money previously approved by the board for the changes, $460,000, includes $100,000 in salary and benefits for the new staff person.