Cedar Shoals principal resigning

Cedar Shoals High School principal Derrick Maxwell on Thursday announced he is resigning on Oct. 29 to take a district level position with a nearby school district.

Maxwell is the latest of about a dozen principals who have left the Clarke County School District in the past two years.

The Local School Governance Team, made up of teachers, parents and other community members, will choose one to four candidates for principal to send on to Means, who will recommend one to the school board for approval.

The full text of sn announcement that Maxwell emailed to the Crdar Shoals community is as follows: