A veteran educator with 43 years’ experience is taking the helm of Hedley ISD following a meeting of the Board of Trustees Monday.
Bill Wood will serve as the school’s interim superintendent following the resignation this month of embattled superintendent Bill Sanders.
Wood grew up in Claude and worked at several schools before retiring as the superintendent at Cisco about 13 years ago. Since then he spent four years as an “interim” at Claude and five years as “interim” at Silverton.
“I could be (in Hedley) for a year or longer depending on how things go,” Wood said. “My immediate goals are to get a budget set, get people hired, and get school going.”
Wood said he will be employed under a “one day contract” situation, which he said means the “one day they don’t like me or the one day I don’t like them, I’m gone.”
He also said as soon as the board knows who they want as a permanent superintendent, he will act quickly to get that person on board.
Wood said prior to taking the job he had had a frank conversation with the board about issues he had heard regarding the relationship between the board and Sanders.
“I will be working directly with the board president; and I told them if they want me to do the job, I will do the job. I will run the school.”
Wood also said he has two granddaughters attending Hedley ISD, and he wants to see the school run well.
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