Meet the superintendent finalist
Public invited to greet frontrunner for Boyertown Area top education post
BOYERTOWN » Residents are invited to meet the finalist to be the new superintendent of the Boyertown Area School District on Monday, April 23, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the auditorium of the high school.
Last week, The Mercury reported that Juniata County Schools Superintendent Keith Yarger is currently the finalist for the superintendent’s post.
The meeting with the public is part of the school board’s hiring process, which also included a school board member from each of the district’s three regions visiting Juniata schools, according to school board President Donna Usavage.
Usavage said 25 people applied for the superintendent’s position and the board initially interviewed six candidates. That was narrowed to three and Yarger was identified as “the lead candidate,” she said.
According to the materials now posted on the school district website, Yarger attended Milton Area School District and graduated from Bloomsburg University with a bachelor’s degree in education. He received a master’s in school administration from Bucknell University and his superintendent’s letter from Edinboro University. He is currently enrolled in an online doctorate program with Northcentral University in Prescott Valley, Ariz. He has been superintendent in Juniata since 2014 and prior to that served as superintendent of the Southern Tioga School District from 2011 to 2014.
Yarger has also worked as a principal in North Schuylkill Elementary School, and at South Mountain Elementary School in the Northern York School District, where he also spent a year as acting assistant superintendent.
He has also taught education at Alvernia University and was a middle school reading teacher at in the Jersey Shore Area School District.
If hired as the district’s top administrator, he will replace Richard Faidley who was appointed last July to head the Wilson School District in western Berks County.
Faidley was appointed Boyertown’s superintendent in July 2013. His contract at that time took effect beginning August 2013 and ending on July 31, 2017.
In March 2016, the Boyertown School Board approved a new contract from Faidley, extending his term to June 2020. His salary when he left was $185,661.
Former Pottstown Schools Superintendent David Krem, who retired in 2012 from the Wyomissing School District, came out of retirement to serve as interim superintendent while the board searched for a replacement for Faidley.