EAST LIVERPOOL SCHOOLS Hiscox to take top job
The board and its new superintendent have yet to agree on a compensatory package.
By NORMAN LEIGH
VINDICATOR SALEM BUREAU
EAST LIVERPOOL -- A former educator from the Canfield School District is taking over the superintendent's post at East Liverpool schools.
The East Liverpool school board agreed Monday to hire Douglas Hiscox of Leetonia.
Hiscox's hiring package is still being worked out, but it's likely he'll be paid about $88,000 annually as part of a two-year contract, school board President Maureen Aronoff said today.
Hiscox will start his new job immediately, Aronoff said. He will be working with interim superintendent William Kay during a transitional period that will last an unspecified amount of time.
Kay was hired after Superintendent Don Lowe's contract expired in July. The board had decided in February not to renew Lowe's contract.
"We're extremely pleased," Aronoff said of hiring Hiscox. "He brings a variety of experience and credentials" to the school district.
New hire's biography
Hiscox, who could not be reached to comment this morning, served as Canfield superintendent from 1998 until earlier this year.
Before that he was assistant superintendent at Canfield, a post at which he had served since 1993, Aronoff said.
In July, Hiscox was replaced as superintendent at Canfield schools by Dante Zambrini. At that time, Hiscox was given the job at Canfield of associate superintendent.
Hiscox's hiring at East Liverpool comes after months of turmoil regarding the superintendent's post here.
In June, the school board placed duty restrictions on Lowe during his last days as superintendent.
The restrictions, which Lowe described as ridiculous, included a requirement that he maintain an hourly log of what he did on the job and that he sign in and out of the building where he worked.
Aronoff said at the time, without elaborating, that the restrictions were intended to ease the district's transition to a new superintendent.