YOURschools
The
shining
legacy of
Kevin Bright By Michael D. Clark photos by TONY JONES, LEIGH TAYLOR, Tony tribble
by booming growth in Greater Cincinnati’s northern suburbs. It will be Wyoming’s former superintendent Gail Kist-Kline who replaces Bright on Aug. 1. “When I first came to Mason it was mostly cornfields, golf courses and churches. Today it is totally different,” says the 58-year-old Bright, who in 2003 was chosen as Ohio’s
Superintendent of The Year. What helped transform the school system was unprecedented growth few Greater Cincinnati school districts have ever experienced. And it is the management during that meteoric expansion that brings Bright the most pride now looking back.
“I never would have imagined that when I started and we had 2,500 students that someday we’d be up to 11,000 students and to think that so many people would move here just because of the schools,” he says. “For 12 years we averaged 580 new students per year and in one year we enrolled 708 new students. One year we hired 90 new teachers
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