Thursday, February 14, 2013
The school committee votes to hire the interim Director. Two school committee members not in attendance say they are disappointed a search was abandoned. A finalist for a job in Arlington, Marisa McCarthy has not decided if she will accept Attleboro's off
Interim Special Education Director Marisa McCarthy could have a long-term future in the Attleboro school district—if she wants it. The school committee voted 6-0 Wednesday to approve Superintendent Pia Durkin's request go grant McCarthy a three-year contract. However, McCarthy is one of two finalists for the same job in Arlington, and School Committee Chair Mike Tyler said she would not remove her name from consideration there. The decision to appoint McCarthy was a sudden departure from the previous plan to do a full search and accept applications. A job notice appears online with a Feb. 25 application deadline. Tyler said he re-convened the search committee last week to determine if its members favored giving the job to McCarthy. He …
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Marisa McCarthy is a finalist for the special education director position in Arlington and is scheduled to visit the district Thursday.
Working in Attleboro could be a one-year gig for Marisa McCarthy, the local school district's interim director of special education. The Arlington school district recently announced she is one of two finalists for the top special education position there. She is scheduled to visit Arlington Thursday. McCarthy was appointed to her job in Attleboro in June. The district is searching for a regular director of special education, and a job notice was posted online last week. McCarthy would not tell Attleboro Patch whether she would apply for the position. "It is such a confidential process that I could not comment," she said. Prior to coming to Attleboro, McCarthy worked for two years as director of pupil services in Granby, Mass. Before that, …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Marisa McCarthy comes from the school district in Granby, Mass.
A search committee will be looking for Attleboro's next special education director in the winter, but in the meantime the school district has a person to run the program on an interim basis. Marisa McCarthy was appointed to the position at the school committee meeting on Monday. McCarthy has spent the past two years as the director of pupil services in Granby, Mass. Prior to that, she worked for seven years as a special education supervisor in Chicopee. Among her successes in Granby, Superintendent Pia Durkin said, was her ability to increase state reimbursement money for special education from $34,000 in 2010 to $190,000 in 2012. "She has been able to institute systemic changes, providing consistent adherence to the federal and state …
JD
5:30 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013
So Ms Craw does not appreciate decisions made by a chosen few????Hmmmmmmm. We'll come back to that comment in the future. Ms. Craw, we can see right through your contrarian few points and motivation for them. Yes, another "gotcha Craw moment". How much support did you give this process? About as much as you did with the Superintendent Focus group process? Right you had Doctor's appointments … more ›