Portsmouth School Board Approves Interim Superintendent Salary

The new, interim superintendent of schools will earn a salary of $132,000, reports The Portsmouth Times. 

The Portsmouth School Committee recently voted to approve the salary. 
The school committee previously voted to appoint Rear Admiral Barbara E. McGann of Newport as interim superintendent. 

She will replace Jeffrey Schoonover, who was previously appointed interim superintendent after the resignation of Superintendent Lynn Krizic. 

McGann, a Newport native, has an impressive Naval career that earned her two Legion of Merit awards. 

A graduate of the Naval War College, she has served in the Pentagon, working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Personnel Policy Division, and later as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. 

After retirement, McGann served as assistant superintendent in Boston schools and as the executive director of the Advanced Math and Science Academy charter school in Marlborough, MA.