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Good afternoon,

Tom Hosford, our Rockford High School principal, was approved last night by the Forest Hills Public Schools Board of Education to serve as their Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources.

Mr. Hosford is a valuable member of our administrative team. He has been the principal at Rockford High School for the past four years and has served in our district as an administrator and a teacher for 22 years. He is also a graduate of Rockford High School, proud class of 1998.

Mr. Hosford has spent his career preparing for leadership. He has served at multiple administrative levels in our district.

And our district has done a good job of preparing Mr. Hosford, as we do all our administrators, for increased responsibility. That preparation brings opportunity.

The opportunity will lead Mr. Hosford away from Rockford. He is ready for this opportunity. I wish him well as he transitions out of Rockford over the next several weeks. His official start date will be July 1.

In our district, we have posted the job of Rockford High School principal. We have a process in place to move forward to identify and hire the next great principal. Our hope is to have the process complete by the end of June.

On a personal note, I wish Mr. Hosford well. He is a passionate, kind, caring colleague. More importantly, he is a good friend. I will miss him.

Steve

Dr. Steve Matthews
Superintendent
Rockford Public Schools