Orland District 135 Superintendent Resigns

Orland District 135 Superintendent Janet Stutz will leave her role at the end of her contract June 30.

The school board voted Monday to accept Stutz’s resignation, doing so ”with deep regret,” they said in a statement. Stutz, who has been with the district for three years, “played an integral part in rebuilding the relationship between the Administration and the Union, as well as between the District and the Community,” according to the statement.

She was the district’s fourth superintendent in seven years.

“She as well as her staff have been, hands down, the most transparent, cooperative and communicative administration I have dealt with in the seven years I have been on the Parents in Education board,” Pelini said. “As a parent of four children in this district, I find myself compelled to ask, what specific reason or reasons do you have for accepting Dr. Stutz’s resignation this evening? ... It concerns me that this board is once again putting our school district in the spotlight with this revolving-door mentality.”

—District 135 parent Tracy Pelini, as reported by the Daily Southtown

Stutz, 52, told the Southtown Tuesday that “I think I was kind of ready for me to move on.”

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