Freetown-Lakeville committee authorizes negotiations with Dr. Barbara Starkey for interim superintendent

The Freetown-Lakeville Regional School Committee voted to authorize the chair to negotiate a contract with Dr. Barbara Starkey to serve as interim superintendent after interviewing two finalists, Dr. Starkey and Rick Medeiros. The committee approved the motion by roll call with seven votes in favor and one abstention.

The vote moves the committee into contract talks with Dr. Starkey, who currently serves as an assistant superintendent in Bourne and presented herself to the committee as a candidate with both building-level and central-office experience. Dr. Barbara Starkey told the committee she has “an established relationship here in the district” and said she believes her mix of local knowledge and recent central-office work would allow her to “pretty expeditiously start to address” the district’s immediate…