OAKLAND COUNTY (WWJ) - The Oxford school district has chosen a new superintendent after the board of education voted at a special meeting on Friday evening, several months after a deadly high school shooting rocked the community.
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WDIV reported the district's board members met on March 4 and unanimously elected Ken Weaver; he is expected to be formally appointed on March 14 after the board reaches a contract agreement.
Weaver has served in the district for over a decade; he spent three years as the Assistant Principal at Oxford High School before becoming Principal of Oxford Middle School for the last eight years.
"Upon notification of his selection Mr. Weaver graciously said, "Thank you, I am overwhelmed with your trust. I am honored to have this sacred responsibility,'" officials said in a Facebook post.
District officials said they started looking for a new superintendent almost three months ago, but the deadly mass shooting at Oxford High School on Nov. 30 put a halt in the process.
The school district's previous superintendent, Tim Thorne, was expected to retire in January of this year, but decided to extend his time in his position following the tragedy that took the lives for four students and injured seven.
Thorne wrote in a letter addressed to students and their parents of Oxford Community Schools back in December that he believed that it was “simply not the right time” for him to retire so soon after the deadly shooting.
Thorne is one of many school district officials and staff that were named in a pair of lawsuits filed by survivors of the attack that 15-year-old student, Ethan Crumbly, is accused of carrying out.
The lawsuit, seeking over $100 million, accuses school officials of failing to stop the deadly shooting that inflicted physical and psychological injuries on students.
Two other similar lawsuits have since been filed by other survivors and their families.
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