If you thought being a public school superintendent is tough, try being a superintendent during a pandemic. In your first year. In a poor, underfunded school district with high administrative turnover. Thatâs the situation Ashley Rizzo, who took over as Columbia Borough School District superintendent in January, finds herself in. Columbia, Lancaster Countyâs smallest school district, has the second-highest percentage of low-income students in the county. School funding advocates say itâs chronically underfunded. And Rizzo, 36, the former principal at Wickersham Elementary School in the School District of Lancaster, represents Columbiaâs eighth superintendent change in 15 years. Despite the challenges in front of her at Columbia, Rizzo, in an interview with LNP | LancasterOnline Friday, said sheâs already come to appreciate the small, urban school district and its community.