LENOX â Veteran eastern Pennsylvania educator and administrator Marc J. Gosselin has accepted a four-year contract as the new superintendent of the townâs public school district.
Under the terms of the agreement, Gosselin, 43, will start July 1, with a first-year salary of $160,000, followed by unspecified increases thereafter, committee Chairman Robert Vaughan told The Eagle.
He was selected unanimously by the School Committee on Jan. 29.
Second-place finisher Beth Choquette, a North Adams native and Cheshire resident who is an elementary school principal in Northampton, also had impressed School Committee members with a strong interview last week.
Gosselin, a native of Dracut in Eastern Massachusetts, was a finalist for superintendent of the larger Dover-Sherborn school district in Bostonâs western suburbs. But, the 15-member joint School Committee and superintendent search committee there failed to reach consensus at a meeting Monday, opting instead to gather mo
LENOX â The search for a new town schools superintendent is down to two finalists, both of whom are on deck for public interviews by the School Committee on Tuesday.
Chosen from an initial pool of 15 applicants to succeed interim Superintendent William Cameron, including three from Berkshire County and seven from elsewhere in Massachusetts, the finalists are:
⢠Beth Choquette, a Cheshire resident and principal of the Bridge Street School in Northampton since 2012. Itâs one of the Hampshire County cityâs three public elementary schools, with a student enrollment of 291.
Previously, she was principal of Stamford Elementary School in Vermont for six years. Concurrently, Choquette was co-founder, co-director, board president and instructor of the Windsor School of Music in North Adams from 2008-09. She taught music at the former Plunkett Elementary School in Adams from 2000-06 (now Hoosac Valley Elementary School).