OAKLAND Seventeen months after Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School Superintendent Beverly Mackay announced her August retirement, the Board of Education has hired an Illinois firm to search for her successor.
Hazard Young Atea Associates of Schaumburg, Illinois, was retained by the board on March 8 for $15,500 to find a replacement for MacKay, who announced in October 2019 that she would retire last August.
Board President Filomena Laforgia attributed the delay to the combined effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and unexpected staffing shifts. When Superintendent Beverly MacKay retired effective Aug. 1, the nation and all New Jersey school districts were grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and still are, Laforgia said.