School District in Hillsboro Loses Administrators

The school district in Hillsboro has recently made announcement about some changes that will be coming, which includes retirements of several administrators who are currently working for the school district. The Human Resources Assistant Superintendent, Lu Biado, who once worked as the principal for Brown Middle School in the district, has set to retire at some point in December. Biado worked as an administrator for nearly 15 years, first starting as the assistance principal for the Poynter Middle School. In 2006, Biado ended up joining in with the human resources department and received a promotion to her current position in 2009. In order to fill the position that Biado is leaving behind, the school district plans to simply promote other people in the human resources department instead of hiring someone to fill in the position.

The executive director of the school district, Debbie Ashley, will now be leading the human resources department. She first started her career working as a special education teacher in the state of Texas. She also has plenty of experience working in an elementary school setting and has even been a principal in the past. Ashley also has experience as a human resources administrator, which is the position she held in 2006. Three years after starting that position, she was promoted to the executive director position that she currently holds right now. At the moment, the school district has decided not to fill the executive director position that will be left empty because Ashley will be promoted to a higher position.

Another retirement comes from Brenda Kephart, who works as the student support systems director for the school district. She has plans to retire at the end of this current school year and has devoted two decades, a total of 20 years of her time to this school district. Kephart’s career actually first started in the Hillsboro area, where she once taught mentally gifted students. In the past, she worked as a principal and was then named Director of the Office for School Performance four years ago, in 2008. The district had decided that they will be spreading out Kephart’s responsibility between several other administrators instead of hiring someone new to fill in the position, which was a decision that could be altered in the future.

There are several schools in the area that will have a new principal with the coming school year as several changes are being made and some employees are receiving promotions, which means positions will be switched. These schools that will see some changes in the Hillsboro area include Eastwood Elementary School, Imlay Elementary School, Brookwood Elementary School, McKinney Elementary School, and Evergreen Middle School.