Superintendent Names Principals for 2 Framingham Schools

Two Framingham elementary school have new principals.

Tuesday night, just before 11 p.m., Framingham Superintendent of Schools Stacy Scott announced at the School Committee meeting that he is moving interim Hemenway Principal Liz Simon’s title and Dunning’ Michele Schecter to “permanent status.”

Scott said he was “very proud of them” and the work they have done at each of the elementary schools.

Scott said he visited both schools and sat in on staff meetings. He said staff “lauded” the “leadership” in both schools.

He said both women have been “well received” by parents and that “students seem to love them significantly, as well.”

He said he informed both of the decision before the Tuesday night’s School Committee meeting.

Scott said his office would issue a press release about the change on Wednesday.

Simon was appointed interim principal at Hemenway, after Lucia Laguarda announced she was taking a position in New York, after five years in the public school district.

Before becoming interim principal, Simon was vice principal at the Water Street school for three years. She has been with the Framingham Public Schools since 1987 serving as guidance counselor at Barbieri Elementary for five years and then as a guidance counselor at Hemenway for 20 years.

Schecter had been the Assistant Principal at the Charlotte A. Dunning Elementary School since August 19, 2013, before moving up to Principal, when Kim Taylor took a lateral transfer to King Elementary in Framingham.

Before coming to Dunning Elementary, she worked at Fuller Middle School for twelve years. During that time, she was a speech therapist for six years and a special education teacher for six years.

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Pictured Framingham Superintendent Stacy Scott.

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