Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Jim Scales announces during a news conference Tuesday that he has reached a tentative buyout agreement to leave the system.
Staff Photo by Jenna Walker/Chattanooga Times Free PressWHAT’S NEXTThe Hamilton County Board of Education will meet May 26 and is expected to approve the buyout of schools Superintendent Jim Scales’s contract.
For the second time in 15 years, Hamilton County Schools will begin a search for a new leader.
Superintendent Jim Scales, on the job since 2006, announced Tuesday that he had agreed to an early buyout of his contract, and that he will exit the school system July 1.
Scales made it clear at a Tuesday afternoon news conference that he intended to stay on the job until his contract expired in June 2012, but that Board of Education members had signaled it was time to part ways.
“From my perspective, things were moving along in the district positively. … The initiation of this process did not come from me and my family. It came from the board,” he said.