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Mitchell School Board to consider two-year contract for Superintendent Joe Childs

Mitchell School Board to consider two-year contract for Superintendent Joe Childs

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The Mitchell School Board is scheduled to meet at 5:30 at Mitchell Middle School. The agenda includes board consideration to offer a new two-year contract to Superintendent Joe Childs. Childs has been superintendent in Mitchell for a year. He replaced longtime Superintendent Joe Graves, who left the position to become the Secretary of Education for South Dakota. The agenda also includes board consideration to purchase a GE AMX Navigate portable X-Ray machine from GE HealthCare. Today’s meeting is open to the public. The agenda can be found here: https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2788/MSD/3729582/Public_Board_Book_Jan_8_2024.pdf.

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