PORT ANGELES — Another Port Angeles School District principal will shift to a new job in the district during a busy year of administrative changes.
Dry Creek School Principal Kate Wenzl has agreed to become the district’s director of special education at the end of the school year, Superintendent Jane Pryne said.
Wenzl will replace Patti Dunlap, who is retiring in June, Pryne said.
Dunlap, who has been the special education director for nearly three years, has worked in special education since 1970 and been with the district since 2004.
She spent seven years teaching in Sequim and previously taught in Alaska and Texas.
The new Dry Creek principal will be named Friday, Pryne said.
That person is expected to come from within the district, she said.
Filling the position at Dry Creek will represent the fourth change in schools’ leadership that will take place this summer.
In March, RooseÂvelt Elementary School Principal Doug Hayman announced his intent to leave the district in July to take a position in Alaska.
Michelle Olsen, currently principal of Jefferson Elementary School, will become principal at RooseÂvelt for the 2012-13 school year, and Stevens Middle School Assistant Principal Joyce Mininger was named to take over as principal at Jefferson Elementary.
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