School District 57 Superintendent Brian Pepper will be stepping down at the end of the year.
In a letter distributed to SD57 staff and addressed to the board of trustees chair, Pepper says he is leaving for reasons connected to “health and opportunity”.
“My final decade in the Board Office as an assistant superintendent and superintendent allowed me to learn about a system striving to make learning more relevant for students yet facing complicated fiscal challenges… I am proud that financial challenge was never used as an excuse for inaction.”
SD 57 Board Chair Tony Cable says the Board’s relationship with Pepper “has been good” and that they wish him the best.
“I would anticipate that what we are going to have to do, is hire an interim or acting superintendent. We will have to get on that really quickly.”
He says the optimal situation would see someone hired and start in the new year.
When asked about the difficulty of filling such a position halfway through a school year, Cable says they are just going to do what they can.
“We really haven’t had to do this in many years so we will just have to see how it all turns out.”
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