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MASD Superintendent Search Moves Ahead
Candidates to meet with board next week
By Adam Reinherz
The Tube City Almanac
December 10, 2024
Posted in: McKeesport and Region News
McKeesport Area School District is moving ahead with its superintendent search.
“We have a total of 28 applicants,” board president Mark Holtzman Sr. said during a Dec. 5 open agenda meeting. “We're pretty excited about that.”
The applicants, who are vying to fill the position vacated by Tia Wanzo following her resignation last month, stem from multiple backgrounds.
Candidates include one executive director, 12 superintendents, four assistant superintendents, five principals or assistant principals, and six others that “work in central administration in districts around here,” Holtzman said.
MASD directors will meet with each of the 28 applicants on Dec. 16 and “get an opportunity to speak before the board,” he continued. Following the Dec. 16 meetings, the board will determine who moves on “to the next round of interviews.”
William Pettigrew, who was absent from the Dec. 5 meeting, is currently serving as the district’s acting superintendent. His compensation, as announced at a previous school board meeting, includes $650 per day, $100 per week for expenses and $110 per month for cell phone expenses.
Holtzman credited Pettigrew, and assistant to the superintendent Matthew Mols, with maintaining a good working relationship with the board.
Mols, a former assistant principal and director of the Career & Technology Center at McKeesport Area High School, was hired in June at a rate of $130,000 per year.
Adam Reinherz is a Pittsburgh-based journalist. He can be reached at adam.reinherz@gmail.com.
Originally published December 10, 2024.
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