Published: March 21, 2008 12:19 pm         

Charlene Simpson resignation to be accepted Monday

The resignation of Mexia Independent School District (ISD) Superintendent, Charlene Simpson, is due to be officially accepted at a called Monday evening meeting of the School Board. The story announcing Simpson’s resignation came earlier in the week in a Page 1 story of The Daily News.

Simpson had been thinking about the resignation before the newspaper found out via several telephone calls last weekend, and after learning earlier in the week that the resignation was imminent.

Due to the Spring break and other factors, no contact was made with any school officials or with any school board members concerning Simpson’s pending action. It was a surprise to several, since she had indicated she would like to have remained for a year or so, prior to possible retirement.

However, it was also learned she might be going to the Region 12 Education Service Center, to which several former educators have gravitated in the past.

The called meeting will start at 6 o’clock and will be in the schools’ Administration Building, 616 North Red River Street.

Trustees, after accepting the resignation, will then consider “criteria and processes for identifying, evaluating, interviewing and hiring a new Superintendent.”

The board must then decide on “transition planning” for an interim Superintendent selection process, “pending employment of a new Superintendent.”

It is assumed that Simpson will remain through the current school year.

Last agenda item is to consider “professional recommendation.”