Pappalardo to be offered Apache Junction superintendent position
Independent Newsmedia
Posted 5/17/23
Robert Pappalardo, who has worked in the Apache Junction and Florence school districts, is slated to be Apache Junction school district’s next superintendent.
The salary starts at $160,000 …
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Pappalardo to be offered Apache Junction superintendent position
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Four certificates
According to the Arizona Department of Education, Robert Pappalardo has four certificates valid for employment in education. The following are by certificate description, start date and expire date:
• Standard professional superintendent, PreK-12; March 2023-September 2035.
• Standard professional emotional disability special education, K-12; April 2017-September 2025.
• Standard professional elementary education, K-8; April 2017-September 2025.
• Standard professional principal, PreK-12; April 2017-September 2025.
Robert Pappalardo, who has worked in the Apache Junction and Florence school districts, is slated to be Apache Junction school district’s next superintendent.
The salary starts at $160,000 for a superintendent, according to an AJUSD job posting.
The Apache Junction Unified School District Governing Board is slated to meet at 11:05 a.m. Thursday May 18, to in part vote on a superintendent employment agreement with Pappalardo. The meeting will be held in the board room at 1575 W. Southern Ave.
The board may meet in a closed-door executive session not open to the public to discuss or consult for legal advice with the governing board’s attorney and/or to consider its position and instruct its attorney regarding a superintendent employment agreement.
The district last week held a forum with two other superintendent candidates — Erika Copeland, an employee of the Queen Creek Unified School District and Dr. George Martin, from the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
The superintendent job became available after a severance agreement for then-Superintendent Heather Wallace was approved at an April 10 meeting of the AJUSD Governing Board that did not include public comment, discussion or debate.
