The most notable hire over the last week saw Robert P. Taylor named the new superintendent of the Wake County Public School System, North Carolina’s largest district.
Taylor was briefly the state superintendent of education in his home state of Mississippi and served 10 years as superintendent of Bladen County Schools in North Carolina. He has also worked in administrative positions at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Clinton City Schools and Cumberland County Schools.
Devin C. Padavil is the finalist to become the next superintendent of Georgetown ISD in Texas. Padavil, who had been the superintendent of Taylor ISD since 2021, has also been an administrator in Fort Bend and Leander ISDs.
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And in Kentucky, Paul M. Mullins will become superintendent of his alma mater, Elizabethtown Independent School District, after having led Logan County Schools for seven years. Mullins was named superintendent of the year by the Kentucky Educational Development Cooperative in 2022.
Finally, Gregg L. Paladina has been named superintendent of the New Castle Area School District in Pennsylvania after leading the Philipsburg-Osceola Area School District for 11 years, the New Castle News reports.
More new hires
- John Cavanagh, Millcreek Township School District (Pennsylvania)
- Ned Clooten, Devils Lake Public Schools (North Dakota)
- Faith Flory, Santa Fe Trail USD 434 (Kansas)
- Robert Freeman, Glide School District (Oregon)
- David Koma, Girard School District (Pennsylvania)
- Jonathan Lloyd, Gold-Burg ISD (Texas)
- Helena Tillar, Marlboro County School District (South Carolina)
- Rick Walsh, Plum Borough School District (Pennsylvania)
