A routine Board of Education consent approval item — passing a personnel report that included hiring Pinehurst Elementary School Principal Ashlee Ciccone to head the county’s new “early college” high school — took a turn on Monday night when board member David Hensley expressed concerns about planning for and funding the school’s construction.
While Ciccone’s hire was ultimately approved, Hensley took the opportunity to both laud the district’s planning team and challenge a process that he said has occurred without input from “key stakeholders.”
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