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PITTSFIELD â Joseph Curtis has inked a three-year contract to serve as superintendent of Pittsfieldâs school district and will earn an annual salary of $168,000.
The contract was negotiated between Curtis and the School Committee, which in April selected the longtime Pittsfield Public Schools administrator to serve in one of the highest-paid and highest-profile jobs in the city. PITTSFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Curtis had served as interim superintendent since the fall, and before that worked several jobs, including deputy superintendent of the approximately 5,000-student district and as principal of Morningside Community School. He started as a teacher in the district in 1994.
With an agreed-upon starting salary of $168,000, Curtisâ initial wages are on the low end of the $165,000 to $180,000 salary range the School Committee set for superintendent job.
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PITTSFIELD â Two of four finalists for superintendent of Berkshire countyâs largest school district fielded questions from the School Committee on Monday evening, in the first of two live sessions before leaders decide in whose hands to place the districtâs reins.
Joseph Curtis, the deputy superintendent appointed by the School Committee last summer to serve as interim superintendent, was interviewed first, followed by Portia Bonner, the interim Bozrah, Conn., superintendent and former superintendent of New Bedford Public Schools, a large urban district in Eastern Massachusetts.
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The candidates chronicled their educational visions, outlined their experience and, in separate interviews, acknowledged the work ahead helping students and educators rebound from the disruptions caused by COVID-19.