The Lowell Sun Editorial
The Dracut School Department needs an experienced, steady hand to help navigate through the rocky fiscal waters, so committee members made a prudent move by selecting former Superintendent Elaine Espindle as interim chief.
Espindle led the schools for 10 years until she was pressured [...]
Pick up this morning’s Lowell Sun to read an editorial that supports the retaining of Elaine Espindle for the interim Superintendent position.
This is no surprise, as the Sun has had a long history of having great respect for Espindle, and was just as dissappointed with Mullin as [...]
By Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — School officials want to oust Superintendent of Schools W. Spencer Mullin from his job as soon as possible — as long as it doesn’t cost the town money.
It’s been a month since Mullin made the surprise announcement that he plans [...]
Following a short discussion, where member Ron Mercier and Dr Mike McNamara preferred continuing the search process for an interim Superintendent via interviews and then a selection, the board voted 4 to1 with Mercier the only member voting against to select and start negotiations with former [...]
By Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — School officials are preparing to make deep budget cuts, and Parker Avenue Elementary School parents aren’t happy that the elementary school could end up on the chopping block.
Superintendent W. Spencer Mullin said he expects the state to cut its funding [...]
State Rep Kevin Murphy, D-Lowell, apparently doesn’t find The Sun particularly memorable. Murphy, who also serves as the attorney for the Dracut School Committee, was discussing the option of advertising for an interim school superintendent in local newspapers when his lapse in memory occurred.
“You said [...]
In making a choice for a process for hiring a new Superintendent, the board seems all over the place.
It seemed that chair Matt Sheehan and member Ron Mercier are more favorable towards having the board do it themselves, and not using the [...]
Last night, School Committee member Mike Miles made a motion to have members discuss the interim position with former Superintendent Elaine Espindle.
This was not to offer her the position, but to discuss whether she would be interested.
Member Bonnie Elie made a point that Espindle would be [...]
By Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — How did Superintendent W. Spencer Mullin make his decision to hire the new principal for Englesby Intermediate School?
School Committee member Mike McNamara wants to know, after he said complaints surfaced from screening committee members who felt their voices weren’t heard.
“People put [...]
