Case Study: Haraway High School

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The four to five vote in favor of hiring a new principal for Haraway High School and tenure applications of a dozen teachers, were the highlights of last night’s meeting at the city school board.
The school board search committee narrowed the selection list of more than 40 applicants to the most qualified two candidates, current assistant principal Juli McCorvey and Mike Coleman a principal from Louisiana.
Coleman earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Backwater State University in Tennessee. Louisiana is where Coleman was born, raised and where he’s been principal of Sandy Bar High School for ten years.
The assembly drew a crowd of 200 people. Most favored current assistant principal McCorvey and others favored Coleman as Haraway’s

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