MOUNT CARMEL - Mount Carmel Area (MCA) Superintendent Cheryl Latorre may have a new job for the next school year.
She has applied for the superintendent's job at Danville Area School District, but the Montour County school has yet to act on hiring its new chief administrator.
MCA School Board President Rose Marquardt said Tuesday she was unable to confirm or deny rumors of Latorre's departure, and referred all questions to Latorre.
Contacted Tuesday, Latorre would only say: "There was an opening at Danville and I have applied for it."
Danville Area School Board President Allen Schappert spoke Monday as if the application process was ongoing.
"We have about 12 applicants, and if someone wants to come and apply for the job, they are more than welcome," he said.
He said the board is in the process of scheduling interviews with candidates later this month.
"There is no timeline for picking someone," Schappert said.
The Danville board meets Tuesday, while Mount Carmel Area's board meets for a work session on the budget on Thursday, June 16, and for a regular meeting on June 22.
The job at Danville has been open for nearly a year, since former superintendent Susan Bickford retired June 30 to return to the State College area, where she once taught and her husband worked.
David Price has been Danville's acting superintendent since then.
Latorre has been in education for the past 31 years, starting her career in 1980 as a teacher at St. Ignatius School in Centralia.
After the mine fire shut down the school, she became a permanent substitute at MCA for one year, then was hired as a full-time teacher.
She was named assistant superintendent in 2005, then appointed as superintendent later that year, after Richard Beierschmitt retired.
