Following Monday night’s Board of Education Meeting, a district press release announced that Superintendent Deb Hamm will retire at the end of the 2019-2020 school year.
“Newton is our home,” Hamm stated in the release. “I’ve enjoyed serving this community as a teacher and administrator. I will miss working with the staff and students. However, I am excited to be able to spend more time with my family.”
Hamm has worked in the district from 1989 to 1998 as a teacher, and then assistant principal, before serving as a principal, assistant superintendent, and superintendent out of district. In 2012 She returned to serve as Newton’s superintendent.
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