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Jobs Uncertain With Abingdon/Avon Merger
Now that Avon and Abingdon have merged their school districts, the newly elected Board of Education has a few decisions to make.

First among those is how to work out the administrative hiring situation.

According to both superintendents, the district administration is in the same position teachers are.

Avon Superintendent Dan Oakley said hiring is pretty uncertain.

"That will be up to the new school board to decide in and of course because they have not met yet there is no decision on how they're going to approach this. we're awaiting the decision in the same way that teachers and administrative staff and parents are in terms of the board deciding how they want to go about this."

The districts merged with 90% and 80% support in the County, respectively.

Now that seven members of the new board have been elected, Board of Education meetings will first be held in Abingdon and possibly rotate with Avon.

Avon said that if the vote didn't pass, they might have needed to dissolve their school district.
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