Malibu : High School Gets Principal
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education appointed Robert Donahue as principal of the district’s new high school in Malibu, scheduled to open in 1992.
Donahue will start work later this month to begin developing programs and a curriculum for the school, which will share a campus with existing Malibu Park Middle School near Zuma Beach.
Board members voted unanimously Monday to appoint Donahue from a field of 45 applicants.
The controversial school has been on the drawing boards for two years. Opponents feared that it would drain money from an already tight school budget and would become an elitist campus for wealthy, mostly white, Malibu residents. Supporters, mostly Malibu residents, wanted a high school closer to home. Board members voted unanimously in April to open the Malibu campus.
About 80 freshmen are expected to enroll in fall of 1992. All high school students in the district will have a choice of attending the Malibu campus or Santa Monica High School, currently the district’s only high school.
Donahue has been assistant principal at Agoura High School in the Las Virgines Unified School District since 1981. He has 18 years of experience in school administration.
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