Daniell Middle School in East Cobb will be getting a new principal in the coming school year, and she’s a familiar face to teachers, staff and students.
The Cobb Board of Education on Thursday approved personnel changes that including promoting Daniell assistant principal Amy Stump to principal, effective July 1.
She will succeed James Rawls, who is leaving after four years to become principal at Cooper Middle School, where he previously had been an assistant principal.
Stump previously had been an assistant principal at Dickerson Middle School.
That is the sixth change of principals at East Cobb schools this spring. Last month, new principals were appointed at Eastvalley, Powers Ferry and Rocky Mount elementary schools.
Two other principals have retired: Dr. Thomas Flugum at Pope High School and Dr. Amanda Richie at Brumby Elementary School, but their successors have not been named.
The 2022-23 school year starts on Aug. 1.
The school board also affirmed the accreditation of the 16 high schools in the Cobb school district by the Georgia Accrediting Commission.
That’s an agency that accredits only high schools in the state, and whose representatives toured Cobb high schools last year as the district was under a special review by Cognia, its main accreditor and which accredits school systems.
Cognia had instructed Cobb schools to make improvements in four areas in its findings that were released last fall, but reversed those findings in March.
Superintendent Chris Ragsdale told school board members Thursday that the GAC accreditation will not affect its accreditation with Cognia and is simply another layer of accreditation.
While Cobb had considered switching to GAC while the Cognia review was underway, Ragsdale assured board members that there were no plans to do so now. The vote to affirm the GAC accreditation was a unanimous 7-0.
GAC announced it was giving the high schools its highest designation, “accredited with quality.”
GAC was paid $3,000 to perform the accrediting process and will be paid $850 annually to continue accreditation monitoring.
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