Former Monroe County Community School Corporation Superintendent Jeff Hauswald will serve as the new superintendent in Kentucky’s Boone County school district. His starting salary will be $265,000 and will increase in the following years. Hauswald begins July 1.
The Boone County School Board approved his contract May 22 after a four-month search. He is replacing Matt Turner, who retired at the end of the school year.
Hauswald is required to relocate within the district, and he will be compensated $4,000 for moving expenses.
Boone County Schools are located in the Cincinnati metropolitan area and serve more than 20,000 students, making it the third-largest school district in the state. The district includes 15 elementary schools, eight middle schools and six high schools.
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The Monroe County School Board agreed to buy out the rest of Hauswald’s three-year contract in March.
Hauswald faced criticism last fall when he proposed aligning MCCSC’s four high schools onto a common schedule. More than 40 Bloomington North and Bloomington South students and parents and community members spoke out against the change in a nearly six-hour school board meeting.
He also released a controversial plan to consolidate Childs and Templeton elementary schools to balance socioeconomic status between schools. That merger will begin in the 2025-26 school year.
