Gwinn Schools Superintendent Terminated

The Gwinn Area Community Schools superintendent is being terminated.

The school board has told Superintendent Dru Milliron that he will be let go, effective June 30th. That’s the expiration date of the one-year probationary period that his contract calls for.

Both he and the board had the option of terminating his three-year agreement at that point.

Gwinn Area Community Schools Board of Education president Ron Lauren said they have already begun looking for Milliron’s replacement.

“We’ve got a date out there for having an interview with a targeted individual on Thursday at 6:30 in the (Gwinn High School) library,” Lauren said.

Before Gwinn hired him last year, Milliron worked for more than twenty years in the Posen schools, in the northern Lower Peninsula. He spent six years as their superintendent.

But school officials did not believe Milliron was the right person to move the district forward.

“We’re trying to get the school (district) back in the right direction, and we feel this is the first step to get some really strong leadership into the school district and keep moving us in a forward progress,” Lauren said.

Milliron is the fifth different superintendent the Gwinn schools have had since the start of the 2007-2008 school year.