Committee Will Announce Schools Superintendent Finalists Tonight

Public interviews are expected to take place next month.

The names of the people in the running to be Attleboro's next schools chief will be revealed at tonight's school committee meeting, Committee Chair Mike Tyler said. The Superintendent Search Committee members will make the announcement. Public interviews of the finalists and site visits will take place next month. The new superintendent is expected to be appointed in April, and the person will officially begin work July 1. Superintendent Pia Durkin is leaving after the end of the school year, her seventh in Attleboro. She never formally announced her resignation, but she also never publically requested a contract extension. Durkin is one of three finalists for the superintendent job in New Bedford. The city's daily newspaper, The Standard-…

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Meet School Committee Ward 6 Candidate: Ken Parent

First time candidate Ken Parent is running for the War 6 spot on the Attleboro School Committee.

Name: Ken Parent Seat: School Committee Ward 6 Education: Somerset High School, Roger Williams University Business School Ken Parent and his family moved to Attleboro two years ago, specifically for the city’s school system which would provide quality education for his two children from kindergarten through high school. “We wanted a place where our kids could start and end school,” Parent said. Parent graduated from Somerset High School and Roger Williams University where he graduated at the top of his business class. Parent has been working at Bank of America for the past 10 years in financial planning, forecasting and budgeting. The first time candidate for Attleboro School Committee describes himself by saying “I’m not a politician, I’m…

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Ken Parent

12:48 am on Thursday, September 22, 2011

Thank you for showing interest in my candidacy for School Committee Ward VI. I find it very encouraging when other parents wish to discuss our school system. I do understand the time far beyond school hours that teachers, staff, and administration put in. My goal is to maintain respectful communication and to keep the focus on the most important members of the APS, the students. Let us focus on …   more ›