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Superintendent offers condolences, highlights recruitment and upcoming bonuses
Summary
Superintendent Ragsdale opened with condolences for recent student and staff deaths, pushed for substantive follow-up rather than perfunctory comments, and highlighted recruitment successes, social-work activity and planned state-funded bonuses to be presented for board approval next month.
Superintendent Ragsdale opened his remarks at the March 19 meeting with condolences for multiple recent losses in the district—students at Norton Park Elementary, Cooper Middle and Harrison High School, and two employees—calling the losses "hard to fathom." He urged sincerity from those who offer "thoughts and prayers": "If you're gonna say it, do it. Words matter," he said.
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