School Trustees Fill Personnel Position
Simi Valley school trustees have hired an assistant superintendent for personnel services, another transplant from Riverside County.
Filling the spot is Ruth W. Lander, now assistant superintendent in the 9,000-student Murrieta Unified School District, where Simi Valley schools chief Tate Parker was the former superintendent.
“We are pleased to obtain the services of an experienced personnel administrator,” Parker said. “In addition, her years of experience as a teacher and a school site administrator will serve her well in Simi Valley.”
In education for 30 years, Lander worked in the Los Angeles, Glendale and Murrieta school districts as a teacher, dean, assistant principal, principal and assistant superintendent.
She is expected to begin work once Murrieta hires her replacement, likely by July 1. In her new job, Lander will oversee recruitment and hiring of teachers and administrators as well as union contract negotiations and grievances.
While contract provisions have yet to be hammered out, assistant superintendents make about $86,000 a year, said Susan Parks, the deputy superintendent for the nearly 19,000-student Simi Valley Unified School District.
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