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Interim Superintendent appointed for the Iowa School for the Deaf

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June 6th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

The Iowa Board of Regents has named an interim superintendent for the Iowa School for the Deaf. According to the Omaha World-Herald, Assistant Administrator John Cool will take over July 1 and is expected to serve for about a month. The regents on Wednesday approved paying him an annual salary of $121,978.

Steven Gettel was appointed superintendent effective Aug. 1st. He will make an annual salary of $180,000 to oversee the Council Bluffs school as well as Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the regents’ other special school, in Vinton. Gettel, director of the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind, will move to Council Bluffs this summer.

Superintendent Patrick Clancy retires June 30th.