Marion has served as the interim principal since April and has been an educator in the East Hartford school district for the last 25 years, according to the district.
Some school administrators are reporting a rise in empty desks and teachers calling in sick as the “triple-demic” takes hold in Connecticut classrooms. After two years of pandemic interruption, which drove unprecedented levels of chronic absenteeism and learning loss, educators hoped the 2022-2023 school year would put students back on track. But a wave of respiratory illness has put absences back on the rise in some districts, temporarily stalling their efforts.