School Board Accepts Eight Retirements

The Oak Creek-Franklin School Board last night accepted the retirements of eight teachers, including four at the high school.

The retiring teachers are:

• Mary Jane Berndt, third-grade teacher at Carollton;
• Sallie Bray, family and consumer education teacher at the high school;
• Laura Dachel, library clerk at Shepard Hills;
• George Haddican, seventh-grade science teacher at East;
• James Hauerwas, physical-education teacher at the high school;
• Lynda Krahulec, kindergarten teacher at Edgewood;
• Susan Kwiecien, business-education teacher at the high school;
• Gail Shellestad, alternative-education teacher at the high school.

Twenty-seven teachers total have filed for retirement, Superintendent Sara Burmeister . Burmeister has also said the number of retirements this year is much higher than normal, mostly because of all the uncertainty surrounding the state budget and retirement costs.

The board on Monday also approved three appointments: Karen Meyer, second-grade teacher at Cedar Hills; Maria Skrzypek, limited-term fifth-grade teacher at Edgewood; and Andrea Spindler, limited-term kindergarten teacher at Meadowview.