Announced tonight by the Redding Board of Education Chair Chris Parkin, Staples High School Assistant Principal Meghan Ward will serve as Principal of John Read Middle School starting July 1st - leaving another administration position open for the Westport Public Schools.

The new position will serve as a coming-home of sorts for the administrator, who is an alumna of Redding & Easton’s Joel Barlow Regional High School. Ward taught in the Social Studies Department at Staples High School from 2004 until 2009, and after a short stint in Maine, returned to Westport and Staples as Assistant Principal in 2016.