Schools
Incoming SFASD super resigns from current post
"He was one of the best we've had," said one board member of the Connellsville Area School District of Dr. David Goodin.
Dr. David Goodin, hired Monday evening as to succeed Dr. Marsha Hurda as superintendent of the Spring-Ford Area School District, has tendered his resignation to the Connellsville Area School District, according to a report from the Connellsville Daily Courier.
Goodin, 48, will begin work for Spring-Ford on July 5.
"I think he did an excellent job. He was one of the best we've had since I've been here," Francis Mongell, a member of the CASD school board, told the Daily Courier.
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Goodin made a similarly strong impression on the members of Spring-Ford's board during the hiring process, outgoing board member Donna Williams said at the board's work session Monday night.
"Dr. Goodin, in my opinion, is a man of integrity. He had so many of the qualities that I was looking for," Williams said.
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Williams said Goodin's appeal transcended the political and ideological divides on the school board.
"It's no secret that we don't all get along, but on this issue, we were unanimous, which speaks to you and says that we've done our [due] diligence. We've done our homework," Williams said.
"I believe that he's going to add to us, not take something away, or I wouldn't have voted for him," Williams said.
Williams said Goodin's selection was the culmination of a process that originally included 43 candidates. She rejected the notion of Goodin as a "second tier" choice after the district for the position.
"We didn't settle," Williams said.
Williams and fellow board member Bernard Pettit alluded to the challenges Goodin faced as the superintendent of a low-income school district.
"Dr. Goodin comes from a 400-square-mile school district. It is generational poverty, something that most people in Spring-Ford can't even conceptualize, as opposed to situational poverty," Williams said.
"One of the main things we have to consider is what Dr. Goodin had to face when he went into Connellsville. Abject poverty is something that Donna [Williams] hit on, and it's an extremely difficult chore for an administration to try to move that up. Dr. Goodin presented us with some magnificent ideas going forward. We were all enthused with Dr. Goodin after having met him, and I think we're going to have a wonderful four years," Pettit said.
