BOE Preview: Search Starts for New EHHS Principal

Updated at 11 p.m

A Connecticut Post report confirms that Anderson has left East Haven to become the new principal for Central High School within Bridgeport Public Schools.

The article reports the former head of East Haven High School will make an annual salary of $136,278 as the new head of Central.

Anderson, along with Bridgeport's other new principal hires this summer, was scheduled to attend a special Bridgeport school board meeting Monday night.

ORIGINAL STORY (Posted at 2 p.m.)

It appears that Principal may be sooner rather than later.

The will hold its next regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday night.

And according to the agenda's roll call of current administrators — although the district's new and new Principal have already been added to the list — no one is specifically named as the principal of the high school.

The district posted its employment advertisement for a high school principal on Thursday. The start date is listed as "immediately."

Anderson's page on the professional networking site LinkedIn was recently revised to list him as the principal of Central High School in Bridgeport. That school's web page, however, still has Aresta Johnson named as its head.

Naming an Interim Principal?

Although the agenda for the school board's meeting Tuesday does include among its informational items Anderson's resignation, it does not include any action or public discussion items related to naming an interim or new principal for the high school.

The principal notified the school system and high school staff members of his resignation last week.

Anderson and Superintendent of Schools Anthony Serio did not return East Haven Patch's calls requesting comment on the resignation, and for information about naming an interim head for the high school as the process of finding a new principal gets under way.

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Overbrook School Principal

And, with only two weeks before the , the high school is not the only building without its top administrator.

is also currently without an officially named head after principal Karen Schmidt retired this summer.

The district posted its employment ad for the position on July 11, and the listed start date is today, Aug. 13.

Although there are several proposed appointments for new fall sports coaching positions and a part-time science instructional leader, there are no action or discussion items on Tuesday's agenda related to naming a new principal for Overbrook.

Summer Staffing Moves

Although former Momauguin School Principal Joanne Manginelli resigned from her post this summer to take a new position in another district, John Prato, who had been the principal at JMMS, will move over to take the elementary school's reigns.

Other Recent Resignations

Other recent resignations included on Tuesday's agenda are:

• Dave Esteban, Social Worker at EHHS
• Jay Creighton, Gr. 7 Science at JMMS
• Maria Pompano, Science at EHHS
• Lisa Verzella, Special Education at JMMS

Finance Subcommittee

The Board of Education's finance subcommittee will also meet prior to the full board's meeting on Tuesday. That agenda is also attached to this article.