Dana Phelps has spent the past few years as interim principal at Ripon Elementary School.
This morning, she’s expected to have interim status removed from her title.
The Ripon Unified school board will be a conducting a special meeting inside the Conference Room of the district office, 304 N. Acacia Ave.
The 11 o’clock open session will include new hires such as Phelps, who took over from long-time Principal Mike Larson in December, as principal at Ripon El., Dori Samson as teacher at Weston Elementary, and Sarah De Jong and Laura Barna as teachers at Park View.
The substitute teachers list consists of Rose Marie Thomson, Abigail Van Vuren, Carmela Arganbright, and Olga Anaya as well as Melissa May (yard duty) and Valerie Daley (classified substitute).
The special session will also have elected leaders needing to approve Heidi Hawes and Trisha Renke’s request of a 50/50 percent request of a job share split for kindergarten at Weston.
Hawes would retain her kindergarten position if and/or when the job share position terminates, according to the request.
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Phelps expected to take over principal job permanently

