MOUNT GREENWOOD — The Local School Council at George F. Cassell Fine Arts School in Mount Greenwood will vote on a principal today.
A meeting is set for 3 p.m. at the school at 11314 S. Spaulding Ave. to vote on a pair of candidates — Eileen Scanlan and Cory Overstreet.
Scanlan is the former assistant principal at Cassell and current principal at Kate S. Kellogg Elementary School in North Beverly. Overstreet is the school's interim principal, who took over after serving 3½ years as assistant principal to Denise Esposito.
Esposito retired mid-year in an effort to save the school from budget cuts. The neighborhood school serves 397 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
The LSC held a second round of interviews with the two candidates in closed session Thursday afternoon.
The council also met May 3 in the hopes of choosing a new principal but adjourned without taking a vote. That heated meeting included passionate pleas from both parents and teachers.
A vote was taken at the next LSC meeting on June 7. That vote confirmed the council was deadlocked as neither candidate had the necessary seven votes to win the job.
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