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By Meagan Engle, Staff Writer Updated 7:11 AM Friday, June 5, 2009

MIDDLETOWN — Middletown City Schools Superintendent Steve Price has given his resignation as part of a separation agreement with the Board of Education.

The school board voted 4-0 in a special meeting Thursday, June 4, to accept the agreement and Price’s resignation, which sets his last day as July 31.

Board President Greg Tyus was absent from the meeting on a mission trip.

Price, 54, who started with Middletown in 2002, leaves the district with two years remaining on his contract.

Board Vice President Katie McNeil said “a difference of agreement on policy” led to the separation.

“The board and Dr. Price mutually agree that it is beneficial for both parties to separate their employment relationship at this time,” McNeil read from a prepared statement during the meeting.

“The board appreciates Dr. Price’s years of dedication and service to the district, and the Middletown community, and wishes him success as he moves on to new challenges,” McNeil said.

After the meeting, Price said he will continue to wish the best for Middletown following his departure.

“I would like to thank all of the Middletown staff, parents and community members who have worked so hard on behalf of the students of Middletown. For the past seven years, my family and I have made our home in Middletown and have grown to love the schools and community,” Price said in a statement.

“During that period of time, I have remained fiercely committed to improving our schools and community,” he said. “Going forward that commitment will not wane and I will always wish the best for the Middies.”

Board members did not name an interim superintendent nor give any specific plans for a candidate search, but said they will discuss it at the next meeting June 15.

Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2551 or mengle@coxohio.com.

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I am happy that you are going. I want to let you know that I am a former Rosedale student and that now I have to go to a private school after my parents saw how how out of hands things were getting. It is pretty ovious how little discipline there is for your schools. I want to let you know that changing schools was very hard for me.
If only every school was like Rosedale.

Rosedale Rocks
2:29 PM, 6/10/2009

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Steve price needs to take the entire school board with him along with Susan Combs, Rod Hilderbrand,
and Dennis Newell.

Just me
11:11 AM, 6/10/2009

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As a Rosedale parent, and a homeowner in the Rosedale area, I am glad to see Steve get his due. He and the board at that time lied to us about the restructuring just to get levies to pass. Now that Steve is gone, there remains some additional management changes to straighten out our schools. Dr. Steve is a good first step in this process. My tip to the board is to pay based on performance and not let out fat guaranteed contracts based on just talk and rhetoric from the prospective candidate.

Mark
11:27 PM, 6/9/2009

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On behalf of all the Rosedale people, so long sucker!!! Glad to see ya go. I truly never thought I'd see this day. You have screwed up anything you could get your hands on. Congrats. Oh, and by the way every time I go by Central Academy my blood boils to see a building that "could not be renovated" renovated into a new school.

Kelly R
1:14 PM, 6/9/2009

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Thanks to Dr. Price....... IT'S A GREAT DAY TO BE A MIDDIE!!!!!

not raised a Middie
2:12 PM, 6/8/2009

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