Charleston schools hire 3 administrators
The Charleston County School Board has hired three new administrators.
James Reinhart has been hired as principal of School of the Arts. Reinhart was principal of Fruitport Middle School in Michigan for the past six years. Before that, he was an assistant principal at Lady's Island Middle School in Beaufort and principal intern at Hilton Head Middle School. Reinhart earned his master's of education from the University of South Carolina.
Dirk Bedford, interim principal of Mitchell Elementary, was hired as the school's principal. Bedford previously was an assistant principal at James B. Edwards Elementary in Mount Pleasant, and he also has worked at Brentwood Middle and Charleston Catholic School.
John Emerson has been hired as the district's new staff attorney. Emerson practices in Nexsen Pruet's Columbia office as a part of the employment and labor law group and the business litigation group. He has been certified as a specialist in employment and labor law by the South Carolina Supreme Court, and he earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina.
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Posted by zoomru on May 17, 2008 at 11:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
2 Principles and a lawyer...
Well.. I know we need 2 of them?!
Posted by GG on May 17, 2008 at 12:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
As a 35 year veteran in education, whatever the principal salaries are, they will deserve every bit of it and more.
A typical week for any principal is an excess of 60 hours with many doing overtime on weekends, at night activities, and school athletics.
Not one of them is paid what they deserve, Trust me when I tell you that if you breakdown the number of hours they dedicate to work with the salary they make, they make less than teachers per hour.
Why do they want to be a school principal then? Most do it because they are devoted educators who genuinely care about how well their school succeeds.
My best wishes to these two new principals.