Hayes named McLean schools superintendent - messenger-inquirer
The board's decision Tuesday afternoon was unanimous, 4-0. Board member Kelly Baird was absent due to a family vacation. When a screening committee met with the board earlier this month, board member Otis Griffin told the committee that the board didn't know exactly what they were looking for in a new superintendent but that they would know it when they found it.... He was born and raised in Hopkins County and graduated from the old West Hopkins High School in 1985. He attended Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia on a basketball scholarship and graduated in 1989. He also earned two graduate degrees from... He is moving to a district almost three times larger than Pineville, which ranks amid the smallest in Kentucky at slightly more than 500 students. Among a board's chief concerns, he said are school finances and test score accountability. Although Pineville Independent Schools hover in the 50th testing percentile in Kentucky, almost 33 percent lower than McLean, Hayes and his staff have managed to raise test scores all three years he served the board there. In addition, last year was the first year since 2007 that the district was able to end the fiscal year with a balanced budget. Hayes said he had to sometimes make tough decisions to manage those kinds of successes. Source: www.messenger-inquirer.com
