School District Names Kryder Tech Center Head

AdminJanuary 8, 2016Last Updated: January 8, 2016

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by Christopher Miller

BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP – The Keystone Central School District has a new director of its Career and Technology Center. The school board last night named Ken Kryder to replace Scott Owen who retired last year.

Kryder, most recently an electronics teacher in the district, will take over as center director effective Jan. 11 at an annual salary of $90,000. His approval came at the Thursday night school board meeting.

A parent went before the board with concerns about the district’s recent transition to Source4Teachers to handle its substitute teacher caseload. According to information last night, though S4T was brought on to handle the scheduling of substitute teachers in the district, there still happens to be shortage of qualified subs in KCSD.

Complaints about the substitute tracking software include a lack of having adequate and experienced substitutes in special education classrooms to “highly qualified” teachers with certification not being called to substitute when schools are in dire need.

Substitute teachers, who prior to this year were hired directly by the district, are finding themselves at a disadvantage to the new technology especially when long-retired teachers-turn-substitutes are not being called.

Plans are currently being hashed out for a renaming dedication ceremony of the Bucktail High School Gymnasium in the memory of the late Renovo High School basketball coach Dale Florey. Being planned for sometime in February, ceremony details will be announced in the very near future.

School Board members took a moment to think and reflect on the lives of two district students, Seth Michael Shea of Loganton who lost his life Thursday morning in an auto accident and Aidan Fowler of Woolrich who passed away last Sunday from his brave battle with cancer.

Superintendent Kelly Hastings was tearfully, “honored and humbled” to have celebrated Aidan’s life with family and friends at his life ceremony at Central Mountain Middle School on Wednesday of this week.