AUBURN - Auburn High School has a new principal.
In an unanimous vote, Brian Morgan was appointed by the Auburn Enlarged City School District Board of Education Tuesday as the high school's new principal effective April 28 at a prorated salary of $95,000.
Morgan, an Auburn High School graduate who has spent the last eight years as principal of Moravia High School, set a goal to lead a large high school.
“For it to be Auburn has made it that much better,” he said.
Morgan, 36, is filling the post left vacant in December when David Roth resigned to accept a position at the Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District. Gordon Klumpp, former superintendent from the Groton Central School District, has filled in as interim principal since January.
Morgan said he is going to miss Moravia and the relationships he cultivated with the district office, school board, teachers, staff and students.
During his tenure as principal in Moravia, Morgan was instrumental in developing the Ninth Grade Academy, a freshmen transition course designed to combat rising retention rates and increase academic achievement.
This background will be helpful when looking at the strength and longevity of Auburn's School Within a School, a pilot program for ninth graders who may have difficulty adjusting to a large school setting and would benefit from more focused attention.
Board President David Lansford said that Morgan was the first and right choice to lead Auburn High School.
“We are very pleased to have you, Brian,” he said. “He is a strong leader, he has strength of character and leadership.”
In other news:
* The board unanimously voted to add a number of streets and avenues to the existing boundaries between each of the district's elementary schools to provide maximum utilization of facilities and resources.
The district is reconfiguring the boundaries in order to balance out inequities in enrollment in several of the schools, notably in Genesee and Herman Avenue Elementary Schools.
The reconfiguration is effective this September. No further board action is expected.
* Local organizations and private citizens presented the board with monetary donations earmarked for the installation of synthetic turf at Holland Stadium to help relieve the taxpayers of some of the local share.
The Auburn Educational Foundation donated $1,500; Paul Lattimore, a board member of the foundation, donated a private sum of $1,000; Johnston Paper, in Aurelius donated $500; Dan Soules, of Grant Avenue Development donated $2,500 for turf and $2,500 to the soccer club; and Ed Nolan, a local dentist, donated $1,000.
Staff writer Alyssa Sunkin can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 239 or alyssa.sunkin@lee.net
Morgan, an Auburn High School graduate who has spent the last eight years as principal of Moravia High School, set a goal to lead a large high school.
“For it to be Auburn has made it that much better,” he said.
Morgan, 36, is filling the post left vacant in December when David Roth resigned to accept a position at the Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District. Gordon Klumpp, former superintendent from the Groton Central School District, has filled in as interim principal since January.
Morgan said he is going to miss Moravia and the relationships he cultivated with the district office, school board, teachers, staff and students.
During his tenure as principal in Moravia, Morgan was instrumental in developing the Ninth Grade Academy, a freshmen transition course designed to combat rising retention rates and increase academic achievement.
This background will be helpful when looking at the strength and longevity of Auburn's School Within a School, a pilot program for ninth graders who may have difficulty adjusting to a large school setting and would benefit from more focused attention.
Board President David Lansford said that Morgan was the first and right choice to lead Auburn High School.
“We are very pleased to have you, Brian,” he said. “He is a strong leader, he has strength of character and leadership.”
In other news:
* The board unanimously voted to add a number of streets and avenues to the existing boundaries between each of the district's elementary schools to provide maximum utilization of facilities and resources.
The district is reconfiguring the boundaries in order to balance out inequities in enrollment in several of the schools, notably in Genesee and Herman Avenue Elementary Schools.
The reconfiguration is effective this September. No further board action is expected.
* Local organizations and private citizens presented the board with monetary donations earmarked for the installation of synthetic turf at Holland Stadium to help relieve the taxpayers of some of the local share.
The Auburn Educational Foundation donated $1,500; Paul Lattimore, a board member of the foundation, donated a private sum of $1,000; Johnston Paper, in Aurelius donated $500; Dan Soules, of Grant Avenue Development donated $2,500 for turf and $2,500 to the soccer club; and Ed Nolan, a local dentist, donated $1,000.
Staff writer Alyssa Sunkin can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 239 or alyssa.sunkin@lee.net
