Another Assistant Principal Leaving Framingham

Barbieri Elementary School assistant principal Jennifer Faber is leaving the district to become the new principal of Woodland Elementary School in Weston.

She is the third of the town’s nine elementary schools to lose a vice principal this spring.

• In April, Dunning Elementary’s vice principal Michele Schecter was promoted to Dunning’s Principal for the 2015-16 school year. In February, current Dunning Principal Kim Taylor will become the principal of the King Elementary School in town.
• Also in April Brophy Elementary Assistant Principal Sara Cummins announced she was leaving to become an art teacher in the district.

Finalists for the Dunning assistant principal position have already been named.

The Framingham Public School district has already begun advertising for Brophy and Barbieri’s replacements.

Last Friday, Cameron Middle School Principal Michelle Melick announced her school’s vice principal Ian Charles was leaving the district for another position.

Charles is the second middle school vice principal Framingham Superintendent of Schools Stacy Scott has hired, who has left after his first year. In 2013, Scott hired Gerson Colon as vice principal at Fuller Middle School. He came to Framingham from Dracut Public Schools, as did Scott. In April 2014, he was placed on extended leave and was not with the Framingham School District for the 2014-15 school year.

Faber was hired as Barbieri Assistant Principal in 2012. She taught as a kindergarten teacher in Sudbury for four years before arriving at the bi-lingual school

Faber is one of more than a dozen administrators to leave the Framingham school district, since Superintendent Scott began his tenure as the head of the Framingham Public Schools.

Under education reform, the Superintendent of Schools is responsible for the hiring and firing of any administrator and principal.

Some of the other administrators, who left the district include:

• Former Assistant Superintendent of Schools Mark Prince, who stayed about a year
• Stapleton Principal Joseph Smith, who resigned less than a year on the job.
• Framingham High School Principal Michael Welch who left in 2014 to become Superintendent of Schools in Dedham and Framingham High Principal Adam Goldberg who resigned in March after starting in July 2014.
• Walsh Middle School Principal Teresa Carney, who left for a middle school post in neighboring Natick.
• Bilingual Director Anne Higgins.
  
• Fuller Middle School Principal Juan Rodriquez
• Wilson Elementary Principal Robin Welch
• Cameron Middle School Principal Judith Kelley
• Stapleton Elementary Principal William McDonald
• And the retirement of Director Family Support Anna Cross and Special Education Director Betsy McKeon.