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Norton Superintendent Search

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Norton Finalizes Superintendent Choice Contract

Joseph Baeta is now the permanent Norton district school superintendent.

The Norton School Committee and Joseph Baeta signed Baeta’s contract to be the new permanent schools superintendent. “He was the best candidate of the choices,” school committee chair Andrew Mackie said. “We’re very happy we found the right person.” The school committee chose Baeta unanimously over several other candidates earlier in January. The results were still up in the air because in November, the committee had chosen a candidate but contract negotiations had fallen through. Now, Baeta is the permanent superintendent for Norton’s district. During the search, Baeta said he wanted to start improving Norton’s academic standing as a district, and he said he wanted to start at the beginning by trying to implement a full-day kindergarten …

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Norton School Committee Chooses Joseph Baeta for Superintendent

Norton School Committee votes unanimously for Baeta on Thursday, pending contract negotiations.

The Norton School Committee voted unanimously to hire Joseph Baeta as the new superintendent of schools Thursday night. Baeta, who started out at the Southeastern Regional Technical School, moved to Sharon and then became the superintendent of schools in Holbrook after working nine months as the high school principal and later as the interim superintendent. He said he never really wanted an administrative position, but it just kind of fell into his lap. “I knew I didn’t want to do one thing in administration,” he said. “I never sent kids to the office, I never wanted that part of the job.” Baeta was chosen after a lengthy search process that started in November after the previous search failed to reach a favorable conclusion in contract …

Snyder's Stoughton

10:21 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013

After knowing Mr. Baeta for two decades, I can tell you that you are getting a first class, stand-up guy who knows education, and will do Norton proud.   more ›

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