U-Hi Principal To Be Reassigned To CV District Adminstrative Post

University High School Principal Dennis Hill, who announced in a faculty meeting last year that he’d been asked to resign, will be reassigned at the end of the year to a position in Central Valley district administration.

“It might be time for someone new to come in,” said Hill, who has been at U-Hi since 1987. Hill was not clear about what his new position would be.

“We have agreed to a reassignment,” said CV Superintendent Richard Sovde. A nationwide search will be conducted to find a new principal, Sovde said. The district expects to find a replacement by late May.

Last year, Hill said Sovde asked him to resign and take a position in administration, which Hill said he refused. Sovde denied ever having asked Hill to resign.

At that time, Hill said he wanted to stay at the high school.

“I don’t have any plans to leave. I don’t want to,” Hill said in an interview in February of 1994. “I love my job and I think I have a fabulous staff.”

Sovde would not elaborate on the recent decision to reassign Hill.

“Any specifics would be something I wouldn’t talk about,” Sovde said. The agreement was reached within the past two weeks, he said.

Hill said he was proud of what he’d accomplished during the past eight years, citing increased use of computers and cooperative learning programs in the high school as two examples.

Hill’s past positions include principal of Cheney High School and Reardan Junior-Senior High School.