PVPUSD SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT RESIGNS

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD) school board president Dr. Anthony Collatos recently resigned. His term ended in early September, but according to the PVPUSD website, he was originally planning to step down in late 2017. However, he was asked to stay in the wake of former superintendent Don Austin’s resignation at the end of the last school year. He obliged and kept his position throughout the beginning of the 2018 term.

According to Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology, in addition to being school board president, he teaches several classes for the Master of Arts in Education with Teaching Credential and Learning Technologies programs.

With the approval of Dr. Alex Cherniss as the new superintendent, school board vice president Linda Reid will assume the position of president until Nov. 6, when a new president will be elected. While Collatos is no longer the president of the board, he is still a member, and will remain so until the next election. In a newsletter on the PVPUSD website, Collatos expressed the importance of consistency throughout the search and hiring process, along with his desire for Reid and clerk Suzanne Seymour to lead the district.