Press release from Asheville City Schools:
The following statement/information from Superintendent Pamela Baldwin was shared with the Asheville High staff at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 and with AHS parents at 2:35 PM:
After careful review of the Asheville High School principal selection process to date, we have elected to re-open the position to a second round of applications. The position will be posted today, June 8, and will remain open indefinitely.In the meantime, we have selected Mr. Rob Weinkle as the interim principal of Asheville High School effective July 1, 2016. Weinkle brings more than 25 years of administrative experience to the job of leading one of the most respected high schools in North Carolina.
Rob Weinkle graduated from Lee Edwards High School the year before it transitioned back to the name Asheville High. Following an education at Carson-Newman College, three years of teaching in Sumter, South Carolina and two years of graduate school at Western Carolina University, Weinkle returned to his Alma Mater where he taught and coached for nine years.
His administrative career began in 1989 with assistant principal appointments at Asheville Junior High and then, Ira B. Jones Primary School. He was then named the principal of Claxton Elementary where he spent two years. Weinkle moved to Alexandria, Virginia to lead George Washington Middle School and returned to his hometown where Buncombe County Schools named him AP of North Buncombe High School.
The next nine years of Weinkle’s diverse educational career were spent as the principal of TC Roberson High School (six years) here in Buncombe County and at Irmo High School in South Carolina.
Most recently, Weinkle has been selected to fill numerous interim administrative roles throughout Buncombe County and Western North Carolina.
Asheville High School is home to about 1,020 students and 125 staff members on a historic campus. The school offers an expansive academic program, talented teachers and staff, a thriving Career Technical Education program, an award-winning MCJROTC unit, extensive fine and performing arts programs and premier athletics to serve its diverse student population. AHS will be led, in the interim, by an educator who comes equipped with a wealth of public school experience, a remarkable knowledge of the local community and culture and a love for his Alma Mater.
Meanwhile, Asheville City Schools will continue the process, in a measured and deliberate fashion, of attracting and selecting a permanent principal for AHS.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Dr. Pamela Baldwin 828-350-6145
Charlie Glazener 828-273-2123
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