Mira Costa High School principal Ben Dale will retire after 11 years helming the campus, he said in an announcement that surprised the Manhattan Beach education community Tuesday morning, March 16.
Dale, who announced his retirement in one of his periodic newsletters, will leave at the end of the academic year, on June 17. The Manhattan Beach Unified School District has not yet announced a timeline for replacing Dale, but Superintendent Mike Matthews said Tuesday that the district has strong internal candidates and will look outside the MBUSD as well.
Dale is retiring from the school, he said in a Tuesday phone interview, because itâs time.
by Mark McDermott
At the beginning of last week’s Kids Need Classrooms rally outside City Hall, organizers stood before an audience of about 100 people and held placards aloft that were stamped with headshots of four Manhattan Beach Unified School District board members, Superintendent Mike Matthews, and teacher union leader Shawn Chen.
Rally organizer Tiffany Wright told the audience of about 100, which included Mayor Suzanne Hadley and City Councilmember Joe Franklin, that those six people were responsible for kids not being in classrooms.
“Those people are the red lighters,” Wright said. “We’ve got Shawn Chen the teachers union….Mike Matthews, superintendent of our school district here.”
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