FREEDOM — Freedom Elementary, which was without a principal since July, now has someone at the helm. Elaine Sherry started Monday and says she’s “fallen in love” with the pre-kindergarten-to-sixth-grade school.
Sherry, 57, who had been the principal of a K-12 school with a total enrollment of 93 students in Pittsburg for the past six years, agreed to a two-year contract with SAU 13 late last month.
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