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New Principals, Administrators Get OK from District 202 Board
All are Plainfield school district veterans filling vacancies and jobs created through restructuring to reduce the budget deficit.
The board appointed three assistant principals and a new special education administrator for Plainfield East High School.
Mary Ann Deliberto was named the new second assistant principal at ; Adam Ubben is the new assistant principal at Creekside Elementary School and Kim Rutan will be assistant principal for for the upcoming school year. Also, Heather Boswell will serve as the new special education administrator at .
The school board approved the appointments at its meeting Monday.
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Deliberto, who currently serves at the special education administrator for the Bonnie McBeth Learning Center, is a 14-year special education veteran and began her service in District 202 in 2003.
Deliberto will be the new, second principal at Timber Ridge. Three District 202 middle schools – Drauden Point, Ira Jones and John F. Kennedy – added second assistant principals this year as part of an initiative to improve special education services and save money, according to a district news release. As part of that initiative, the deans’ and special education coordinators’ positions were cut at those three middle schools, according to the district.
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Ubben, who has been the Creekside interim assistant principal since January, will drop the interim from his title. He began his career as an elementary art teacher in Naperville in 2002 and then taught art in District 202 later that year. He has also served as the interim assistant principal at Central Elementary School.
Rutan, an Ira Jones Middle School seventh-grade teacher, began her career at Ira Jones in 2006, teaching sixth-grade language arts of four years and then seventh-grade language arts.
Boswell began as a special education teacher for District 202 in 2002 at Creekside Elementary School. She has served at Heritage Grove Middle School and Plainfield High School – Central Campus before working at Plainfield East High School when the school opened in 2008. She has already begun helping transition eighth-graders for high school, school officials said.
