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By Jorge Casuso
May 22 -- Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District
Superintendent Dianne Talarico confirmed a report in The Lookout
Wednesday that she will likely soon be leaving her post. (see
story)
Talarico said she hopes to be tapped to head a school district in Northern
California as early as next week. If she is offered the post, she will leave
the district she has headed for two years by July 1.
“An opportunity has presented itself,” she told The
Lookout Wednesday, “but it’s not a done deal.
“I won’t believe it until the board approves it, and that will
happen late next week or the following week,” Talarico said.
Talarico declined to name the district she would be heading, but sources said
it is a small K through 8 system with less than 2,500 students, far smaller
than the 12,500-student district she currently heads.
The move, Talarico said, will allow her to be with her husband, who teaches
in Northern California.
“For two and a half years we haven’t been together,” she
said. “I have to have a balance of a personal and professional life.”
Talarico’s departure would mark the second time a top administrator leaves
as the 2008 school year nears an end.
Deputy Superintendent Tim Walker, who is at the center of a firestorm
over special education settlement agreements, resigned his post
under a settlement with the District approved by the School Board
on May 1. ("Walker
Resigns Post Amidst Special Ed Controversy," May 2, 2008)
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