Jacksonville names interim principals

The Jacksonville Board of Education named two Kitty Stone Elementary administrators as co-principals Monday, following the resignation this month of the school’s principal.

According to interim superintendent Tim Nabors, assistant principals Rhonda Tinker and Yvonne Swift will lead Jacksonville’s elementary school for the next six months. Contracts call for the women to be paid $6,500 per month, through Dec. 31.

Nabors suggested the board consider keeping two principals at the elementary school going forward — one for kindergarten through third grade, the other for grades four through six.

Christy Hamilton, Kitty Stone Elementary’s outgoing principal, also attended the meeting. She’d worked at the school eight years.

Pearce thanked Hamilton for her service at Kitty Stone and the audience stood and applauded Hamilton after the board member’s comments.

The former principal said she resigned June 15 — the same night the board removed its previous superintendent — to accept a job as principal of Kermit Johnson Elementary in Jefferson County.