Pleasant Valley Superintendent Geary to leave
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Pleasant Valley School District Superintendent Carole Geary will be stepping down after the school year.
"She's leaving when her contract is up, I think on July 31," School Board President Russell Gould said. "She has put in 30 or 31 years and I think she felt the time was right."
There were no immediate plans to replace her.
"I'm going to talk with the solicitor Dan Corvelyn to see where we go next," Gould said.
Geary took over as superintendent for the district in Aug. 2013. She replaced Superintendent Doug Arnold in 2013, who retired after serving for more than six years.
She first joined the district in 1985 as a math teacher in the high school. She graduated Slippery Rock University with a Bachelor of Science in secondary math education in 1985 and earned her Masters of Science in secondary education at East Stroudsburg University in 1996, according to published reports.
Geary was an assistant principal at Pleasant Valley High School, and then a principal at Stroudsburg High School between 1999 and 2001.
From 2001 to 2003, Geary was the principal at Chestnuthill Elementary School and the math supervisor at Pleasant Valley High School.
Geary earned her Superintendent's Letter of Eligibility from Marywood University in 2003. Geary then spent the next 10 years as the assistant superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction at Pleasant Valley School District.
She was appointed associate superintendent in Jan. 2013, with an eye on making her Arnold's successor. She has overseen the district's curriculum since 2004.
Geary could not be reached for comment.
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