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Ravenna hires new special education head Assistant principal resigns

Dave O'Brien

July 19, 2008

By Dave O'Brien
Record-Courier staff writer
The Ravenna Board of Education accepted one administrator's resignation and hired another during a special meeting Thursday.
Superintendent Tim Calfee said the district hired Robin Kline, a veteran teacher and supervisor, as the Ravenna School District's new director of special education.
Kline comes to Ravenna after seven years with the East Shore Special Education Resource Center and teaching experience in Painesville and Mentor, he said.
"She has a wide teaching background," Calfee said.
The board also accepted the resignation of Ravenna High School Assistant Principal Michael Roberto. Calfee said Roberto resigned his position to take the same position at Aurora High School.
Roberto was hired in June 2007 from Aurora, where he taught science. A 1987 graduate of Ravenna High School, his mother Donna teaches fifth grade at Rausch Intermediate School and his late father, Jim, was a longtime Ravenna teacher.
The board also hired three new teachers and filled several supplemental coaching contracts, according to Calfee.

2.	Posted by mouseboysmom3 July 19, 2008
	Ravenna has a very good Special Education Program. Someone needs to coordinate that. I am pretty sure its a mandatory position since by law, the school has to offer special education services. I do understand that sometimes there are many positions that are not needed but this isn't one of them. My Son had benefited from this program for years.

1.	Posted by Dowhatsright July 19, 2008
	Why the heck do we need a head of special education? Lets have a head of the heads, a head of books, a head of teachers excuses, and a head of anything else you can think of. Give someone a title and the want more money. No wonder the schools cost so much.