A superintendent sharing agreement between the Highland and WACO school districts starting next school year is now official.

The WACO School Board earlier this week approved the arrangement to share Highland Superintendent Ken Crawford effective July 1st after the Highland School Board approved the item a week prior. Current WACO Superintendent Chris Armstrong will continue in his position until June 30th. Armstrong began working for the district during the 2018-19 school year on a 52-day contract with the task of finding a suitable district for WACO to share with in the future, “Three years later we were finally able to find that match and we’re very happy to come into an agreement with (the) Highland School District for sharing Ken Crawford as superintendent. It’s a 70-30 agreement, so 70% of the time he will be in the Highland district and 30% of the time he will be in the WACO district, which is slightly more than what I was doing. I was basically 20%, a one-day-a-week superintendent for them.”

Armstrong retired from Highland on June 30, 2017 after 34 years as an educator, but he says that prior connection had no bearing on the new sharing agreement with WACO. He says the arrangement between WACO and Highland is the best fit for what he hopes will be a long-lasting partnership.

For the last three years Highland has shared Crawford with the Lone Tree School District. In January, he resigned his position at Lone Tree effective June 30th to take the position full-time at Highland.