Connie Valenza has been hired as the interim district administrator for the Salem School District.
The appointment was announced last week by the School Board.
According to a statement posted on the district’s website:
(Valenza) is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has twenty-five years of administrative experience, seventeen as a middle and high school principal, and eight years as a Superintendent in Platteville, WI. She is a member of DPI’s Academic Standards Review Council and one of Wisconsin’s representatives on the Multi-State Rural Teacher Shortage Initiative. Her home base is Columbus, WI where she and her husband, Ted, have their home and thirty-five acres on the family dairy farm. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.
David Milz resigned as district administrator Aug. 16 to take a similar position with the Bristol School District. Milz had been the Salem district administrator since 2004.
