Principals shuffle at area schools

Carlton County schools has lost at least one principal to Duluth this fall, and moved one in from neighboring Pine County.

In Carlton, the school board held a special meeting Friday, Sept. 6 to approve the resignation of secondary school principal Barry Fischer, who had been with the school district just over a year.

After six years there, Barnum High School principal Brian Kazmierczak resigned as principal and girls basketball coach to become the new Lincoln Park Middle School principal in Duluth. Gregg Campbell, the high school principal at Willow River, was hired to replace him in Barnum.

Carlton superintendent Gwen Carman said Wednesday that the school board has not accepted Fischer’s resignation, and planned to meet Wednesday evening to discuss the district’s administrative structure.

“Mr. Fischer is currently our MS/HS Principal,” Carman wrote.

UPDATE: According to the agenda for the Monday, Sept 16, Carlton School Board meeting, retired Cloquet High School Principal Warren Peterson will likely replace Fischer, on an interim basis, at a salary of $45 an hour.