Back to School: Changes in Start Times, Administration for Stillwater Schools

The starts this week, and that can only mean one thing: The start of a new school year is right around the corner.

Here is some information to keep in mind about changes in the :

New School Hours: School start and end times are changing for students across the district as one of many budget cuts announced this spring.

Changing school hours, according to school district officials, allows for more efficiency in transportation and will result in nearly $300,000 in cost savings.

Click here to see the new school hours

New Leadership: Several new leaders joined the Stillwater Area Public School District over the summer, while other administrators moved to new positions within the district.

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As a result of restructuring district administration to reduce costs, an assistant superintendent and the director of curriculum and instruction positions have been replaced with two new executive directors of curriculum, innovation and leadership.

• Mary Andersen will oversee elementary education and Mike Redmond will lead the secondary schools.
• Paul Lee was recently hired to take over for Mary Mesler as director of Student Support Services.
• Mark Drommerhausen, former Andersen Elementary principal, will be leading .
• Former Lily Lake Principal Malinda Lansfeldt will move to Andersen Elementary and will also be responsible for leading and overseeing the district’s new elementary STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) program. According to district officials, moving to Andersen (with a smaller population of students) will allow Lansfeldt to take on the additional district-wide duties, which will result in a cost savings to the district.
• will also have a new principal following the resignation of Dawn Wiegand. Ginny Kruse Rudolph, who served as the director of curriculum and instruction for the past two years, will take over as principal for the coming school year.