School districts make leadership changes/New City Supt. Salary $145,000
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
By MATT KATZ
Courier-Post Staff
Headed into the new school year, there's a shuffle among the top school posts in South Jersey.
Mount Holly Superintendent Paul Spaventa was hired by the Gloucester City school district, a low-income, Abbott school system, as the new superintendent. He will start as assistant superintendent of the 2,200-student district in November and begin as superintendent in January.
No replacement so far has been named in Mount Holly for Spaventa. He is a former superintendent in Clementon, a former vice principal in Gloucester Township and at Gateway Regional and a former teacher in Collingswood.
A resident of Gloucester Township, Spaventa replaces Mary Stansky, who is retiring after nine years in the Gloucester City district and 28 years in education.
Pemberton Township also has a new schools chief. The new superintendent, Michael Gorman, began work Aug. 1 and will earn $172,500, according to his contract.
Gorman was the superintendent in Glassboro, where the district credited him with improving fourth- and eighth-grade test scores and addressing the fact that a disproportionate number of black male students were classified for special education.
Gorman has been replaced on an interim basis by Leonard Fitts, who was until this spring the interim superintendent in Camden.
Fitts is expected to be an interim superintendent for nine to 10 months, according to a district statement, and will be paid an undisclosed sum on a per diem basis. Fitts is a former county superintendent.
The Glassboro school board will begin looking for a replacement Sept. 21 when it meets with the New Jersey School Boards Association.
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Spaventa named to lead Gloucester City schools
The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 14, 2007
Spaventa was appointed Thursday and
will join Gloucester City in November as an assistant superintendent. In
January, Spaventa will replace superintendent Mary Stansky, who will retire
Dec. 31 after heading the district for nine years.
Spaventa, who holds master's degrees
from Temple and Rowan Universities, will be paid $145,000 annually. He has been
chief in Mount Holly for two years and has been paid $128,000. An educator for
28 years, he previously was schools chief in Clementon and was a teacher in the
William Penn and Collingswood districts.
Gloucester City is one of the state's 31 special-needs or Abbott districts, which receive additional state funding under court orders to bring spending in line with their wealthier counterparts. The 2,200-student district has four schools with pre-K through 12th grade. It has a $38 million annual budget and 425 teachers and support staff. - Melanie Burney
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