Board accepts staff resignations, approves new hires

The Summerland Board of Education learned several staff members will depart at the end of the school year.

Board president Nate Schwager read a resignation letter from Lisa Cook, a mathematics teacher.

Superintendent Molly Aschoff said Ashley Koenig, a Ewing graduate, will fill the vacancy. Koenig currently teaches business at Creighton Community Schools.

“She will be teaching junior high math and will take the Praxis test to get that certification,” Aschoff said. “With a strong math department and a math-based principal, it will help, too.”

Kristen Herchenbach will fill a middle-school specia...