With a 5-0 vote, the Jessamine County Board of Schooling on Thursday named present Director of Operations Sara Crum as the subsequent superintendent, a district information launch stated.
Matt Moore is retiring after seven years as superintendent.
Jessamine County Board of Schooling Chairman Steven Scrivner stated within the launch the board acquired 16 purposes and chosen three candidates for interviews.
“We had three excellent finalists to select from and that speaks volumes about how effectively our district is considered all through the state. In the long run, Sara Crum was the proper candidate to construct on the inspiration laid by the superintendents earlier than her and take us to even higher heights,” stated Scrivner. “Her ardour for scholar success is infectious.”
Crum’s 25-year profession started as a instructor at Nicholasville Elementary College. She was later curriculum useful resource administrator after which principal of the college.
For the final three years, Crum has served because the director of operations, the place she has helped in managing the day by day operations of the district’s 13 colleges.
Because the district security and safety coordinator, Crum labored intently with native legislation enforcement companions to make sure that complete safety measures are applied, reviewed and adjusted, as wanted.
Crum credit former faculty district chiefs with laying the groundwork for her subsequent steps as superintendent, saying, “I’m lucky to observe within the footsteps of exemplary leaders who’ve left a legacy of excellence for Jessamine County Faculties
Crum earned a bachelor of arts in training and a grasp’s diploma in training from Georgetown Faculty. She acquired a grasp’s diploma in tutorial management from Jap Kentucky College and a faculty superintendent certification from the College of Kentucky.
She and her husband, Danny, reside in Nicholasville with daughters Ellie, who attends Asbury College, and Olivia, finishing her sophomore 12 months at West Jessamine Excessive College, the information launch stated.
