LOS ALAMITOS : Principal Named for Oak Middle School
Barbara O’Connor has been appointed principal of Oak Middle School in the Los Alamitos Unified School District.
Supt. Michael S. Miller announced her appointment this week, ending a four-month search that began after trustees of the district decided to reopen Oak, which has been closed since 1986. O’Connor is principal of Vista View Middle School in the Ocean View School District in Huntington Beach.
The school’s reopening in the fall will help ease overcrowding at McAuliffe Middle School, the district’s only middle school, which has nearly 1,700 students, officials said.
O’Connor will begin the new job in July.
“She is an outstanding addition to the high quality staff we and the community have come to expect in our schools,” said Miller. He said nine candidates were selected to go through rigorous interviews conducted by three separate panels of administrators, teachers and parents.
O’Connor, who has worked with the Ocean View School District in Huntington Beach for the past 23 years, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Cultures from UC Irvine and a master’s in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena.
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