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Yolanda Jones-Generette: New West Rock principal.
Six elementary schools found out about new principals over the weekend, in a district-wide reshuffling that’s putting administrators closer to classrooms.
Yolanda Jones-Generette, an administrator overseeing support services and early childhood education, will be the new principal at West Rock Authors Academy. That school’s current principal, Rosalyn Bannon, is being bumped to Barnard Magnet School (where Belinda Carberry retired).
Dina Natalino, Wilbur Cross High’s assistant principal, will be the new principal at Bishop Woods Academy. That school’s current principal, Rosalind Garcia, is transferring to Lincoln Basset School (after Janet Clayton-Brown left for a top job as assistant superintendent in Bridgeport).
Sabrina Breland, an administrator on special assignment at James Hillhouse High School, will be the new principal at East Rock Magnet School (where Margaret Pelley retired). Laura Roblee, principal at the now-shuttered Creed High School, will serve at Brennan-Rogers Magnet School (where Gail Deblasio retired).
Those staffing decisions are scheduled to come before the full Board of Education for a vote tonight.
Even with those changes approved, there’s still a couple more administrative spots that need to be filled.
No one has been selected to take over at Metropolitan Business Academy after Judith Puglisi put in for retirement. No one has officially been announced to lead the Riverside Opportunity High School, though it’s presumed that Larry Conaway will stay on; New Horizon’s Maureen Bransfield left to direct New London’s arts magnet school.