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Dear Scal1024,

Regarding your comment "phony crisis manufactured by the school committee (Peter Horoschak's firing)". I was on the school committee at the time. The former superintendent had a contract that was up for renewal. The school committee chose not to renew his contract. I did not vote to renew his contract in 2010 because I thought we could find someone better. I also did not vote to renew his contract in 2012. After the school committee chose not to renew the contract a situation occurred that forced the school committee to put him on leave. While on leave it became apparent that he would not be returning and an interim needed to be chosen and quickly. A school department is required to have a superintendent. We had less than 5 people on staff with the required superintendent certificate. Dr D'Agostino accepted the position is interim superintendent and received a SMALL stipend to handle all his regular duties as Director od Special Education and the Superintendent duties. I was not re-elected to the school committee in 2012 so I was not involved with his renewal and acceptance as the Full time Superintendent. I would have opened the position up to look a superintendent with a nation-wide search. For the short time I worked with him he did a good job handling the schools. I disagree with several decisions including cancelling ALAP and the librarian.

I just wanted to clarify the situation with the former superintendent.