THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, April 18, 1996 TAG: 9604180358
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY PAUL SOUTH, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: MANTEO LENGTH: Medium: 61 lines
Without comment, the Dare County Board of Education has formally accepted the resignation of Manteo High chemistry teacher Frank Schulz.
Schulz, 51, is under investigation, but law enforcement authorities have declined to discuss the reasons for the probe.
Dare County sheriff's deputies and agents from the State Bureau of Investigation searched the teacher's home on Good Friday. The warrant and a list of what was found have been kept under seal by order of Dare County Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett.
Schulz resigned after his classroom was searched and he was led from the room. School officials have declined to discuss the case, but prosecutors said Tuesday that the investigation was continuing.
Schulz's resignation was included as part of the consent agenda at Tuesday night's school board meeting.
In other business, the board was told that consultants will be in Dare County later this month to begin a system-wide inventory of the educational needs of the county. Boney and Associates will focus on facilities, including a new beach high school. The board said no more than $25,000 would be spent on the study.
``Many people in the county are not aware that we have established a long-range plan,'' said board member Fletcher Willey. ``Part of that plan is to build a beach high school. Planning for that ought to start going on now.''
The Boney and Associates study will be used with the system's High School Task Force report and other studies to determine the district's needs, not only for a beach high school, but also for Hatteras, Manteo and First Flight schools. Within the next 20 years, school officials say, some facilities will have outlived their usefulness.
``Any school life span is about 50 years,'' Superintendent Leon Holleman said. ``1970 may not seem like a long time ago to many of us. But that was more than 25 years ago. We have to look at the overall facilities needs of the entire system.''
Much of what the system will be able to do depends on a statewide education bond package to be taken up by the North Carolina General Assembly later this year.
The facilities study should be completed by mid-summer.
In other action:
The board renewed assistant superintendent Gene Gallelli's contract for two years, at a salary of $57,564 and a local supplement of $9,468.
The board approved the 1996-97 school calendar. School will begin Aug. 29. It will start later this year than last, Holleman said, because of a variety of factors, including summer traffic, students' summer jobs and the Babe Ruth World Series.
The system will begin work on accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The procedure usually takes about 18 months, but Holleman said the system's goal is to earn that recognition within a year.
KEYWORDS: INVESTIGATION RESIGNATION DARE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION by CNB