Jackson Elementary has its new interim principal two days after
Garry Dudley announced his retirement. Former district
administrator and Jackson’s first principal in 1979, Ray Jimenez,
was introduced to Jackson at the schools’ Back-to-School night
Thursday.
Jackson Elementary has its new interim principal two days after Garry Dudley announced his retirement. Former district administrator and Jackson’s first principal in 1979, Ray Jimenez, was introduced to Jackson at the schools’ Back-to-School night Thursday.
Jimenez retired in 2003 after working for MHUSD for 32 years. Since 1971, he has worked as a classroom teacher, elementary and middle school principal and Coordinator of Student Intervention and Categorical Programs. Jimenez, a father of two adult children, was Jackson’s first principal from the spring of 1979 to June 1982.
Jimenez was named “Educator of the Year” by the Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce in 1998, and received recognition from the Santa Clara County Office of Education in 1992 for gains in student achievement at Britton Middle School.
He will work with recent-hire Ernie Zermeno, who is Jackson’s Program Improvement specialist, the Jackson staff, parents and students and district administration to improve student achievement at Jackson for all students, according to a news release from the school district.
The district will wait to hire a permanent principal likely until after this school year ends.
“We will get someone with experience in there … who has a really good track record of bringing people together,” Smith said.
