The search is under way to find a new superintendent in the Black Oak Mine Unified School District since Rob Schamberg resigned recently.
In an effort to involve the community in the process, district trustees are seeking public input by establishing two focus groups that will meet Wednesday.
The first group will meet from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Golden Sierra High School Library, 5101 Garden Valley Road, Garden Valley. The second group will meet from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Northside School Library, 860 Cave Valley Road, Cool.
Everyone is invited to attend and provide input.
Vicki Barber, El Dorado County superintendent of schools, will facilitate both groups to gather information from staff members, parents and community members on the characteristics they believe are critical for a superintendent to possess.
Interviews for superintendent candidates will be held on Sept. 17, and the board of trustees hope to have the new superintendent in place by early fall.
The El Dorado County Office of Education has hired Michael Wood as principal of Charter Community School in Placerville.
Wood will replace Bill Wild, who is retiring after 34 years in education.
Wood served most recently as principal of a continuation high school and community day school in the Tracy Unified School District.
Scholarships are a focus of the news coming out of Folsom Lake College this month.
Folsom resident Shauna McElroy was selected for a $2,000 Jeannette Rankin Foundation scholarship. A single mother of two who is attending college for a degree in business, McElroy is the first Folsom Lake College student to receive the scholarship named after the first woman elected to Congress.
The Folsom Lake College Foundation also has awarded $600 scholarships to the following students: Terri Buhlert, Alisha Jackson, Karissa Lukk, Stanislav Pribytkovsky, Hannah Rufer, Ashley Selsted-Sianez and Jeffrey Taylor.
Kelli Davis was honored at the Aug. 7 meeting of the Folsom Cordova Unified School District board of trustees for beginning her second one-year term as student board member.
Davis is a senior at Cordova High School.
Call The Bee's Walter Yost, (916) 608-7449.
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