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Coos Bay SD 9 board accepts superintendent resignation, appoints Gary Roberts as interim and authorizes contract talks
Summary
The Coos Bay SD 9 board announced Superintendent Justin Ainsworth’s resignation, authorized an executive committee to negotiate an interim contract, and appointed Gary Roberts as interim superintendent and district budget officer for the 2025–26 school year.
The Coos Bay SD 9 School Board announced that it accepted Superintendent Justin Ainsworth’s resignation and moved quickly to name an interim leader and authorize contract negotiations.
At the start of the meeting the board chair said the resignation had already been accepted on the consent agenda and publicly confirmed that Ainsworth had resigned. The board then discussed next steps for leadership before the start of the school year. “We had a very quick meeting and some people in the audience may not have even realized that the superintendent resigned, since we accepted his resignation in the consent agenda,” the chair said.
Several board…
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