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District U-46 announces senior staff appointments

By Seth Hancock
  School District U-46 has announced five new principals, two new cabinet members and a new executive director as the 2023-2024 school year began on Tuesday, Aug. 15.
  Some of the new administrators are new to the district and others have been promoted, a district press release stated.
  “The start of a new school year is a time when we welcome new professionals to key roles in the District and congratulate U-46 employees who are taking on new responsibilities,” said Superintendent Suzanne Johnson for the release. “They all join staff who are eager to work on behalf of our more than 35,000 students and their families.”
  Included are three new elementary positions with Jeron Shelton as principal at Elgin’s McKinley Elementary School and both Ryan Corcoran and Anissa Upshaw-Lanotte as co-principals at Washington and Highland elementary schools respectively, both in Elgin.
  Shelton has been with the district for 16 years with the last two years as a resident administrator at Clinton Elementary School, Corcoran has been with U-46 since 2017 including the last two years as a resident administrator at Horizon and Huff elementary schools and Upshaw-Lanotte has been with U-46 for four years as the assistant principal at Ridge Circle Elementary School.
  As the middle school level, Richard Lebron is the new principal at Streamwood’s Tefft. Lebron has been with U-46 for 17 years, and he was the assistant principal at Tefft last year.
  Paige Moran is the new principal at Streamwood High School. Moran was the assistant principal of STEM at Streamwood last year.
  The two new cabinet positions are Lela Majstorovic as deputy superintendent of instruction and Frank Williams as assistant superintendent of finance. Majstorovic has been in U-46 since 2018 and was assistant superintendent of schools the last two years, and Williams is new to the district after being the chief financial officer at Mascoutah Community Unit School District 19 since 2015.
  Mary Sturgill is new to U-46 as the executive director of the South Elgin Network. She was previously a principal since 2016 in Northbrook School District 28.