Education foundation director resigns
Michelle Drager leaves after one year for a new job in Berks County
After one year on the job, Michelle Drager has left as director of the Foundation for Pottstown Education.
POTTSTOWN >> Almost a year to the day that Michelle Drager started as the executive director of the Foundation for Pottstown Education, she left.
Myra Forrest, the previous executive director who is now serving as the interim, informed the school board at the Sept. 26 meeting that Drager had taken a job at a hospital foundation in Berks County.
She said Drager resigned on Aug. 8.
Drager’s salary was $82,000 per year, said Forrest, who is also a former Pottstown assistant superintendent and former Owen J. Roberts School District superintendent.
Forrest, who stayed on for a year as a consultant to run the early college program, said she and Jane Hamilton will continue to run the foundation until a replacement is found.
She said her rate as a consultant is $65 an hour.
Repeated attempts to reach Sue Seanor, the president of the foundation board, were unsuccessful; as was an attempt to reach Edwin Edwards, the foundation’s vice president.
Drager came to Pottstown from Whitefish, Mont., where she headed up the North Valley Hospital Foundation.
When she came to Pottstown, Drager said she had big plans.
“We’re going to start a new strategic plan to position the foundation for the next level,” Drager said last year.
The status of that strategic plan was not immediately available.
According to its website, the foundation is involved in funding dual enrollment at Montgomery County Community College, as well as the district’s signature “early college” program, field trips, teacher mini grants, scholarships and early childhood initiatives.