A new principal may soon take over at Manhattan Virtual Academy.
On Wednesday evening’s consent agenda, the USD 383 school board will consider a contract for Morgan Jobe, effective July 1. Jobe teaches language arts and family & consumer sciences at MVA, which is housed within Manhattan High School.
She’s also a project/program coordinator in the Office of the Associate Dean for Research and External Funding at Kansas State University. She previously held other teaching positions in Manhattan and Junction City.
Jobe, who would become the second principal in MVA’s history, would succeed Brooke Blanck, who founded the program in 2006, initially as the IQ Academy. Blanck has been employed with the district since 1989 and announced her retirement at the Feb. 18 school board meeting.
At that meeting, superintendent Eric Reid said Blanck’s legacy is cemented in what she helped launch all those years ago.
“It’s a different skillset to understand what the virtual school world is and how that works and how different their budget is,” he said.
Board member and former Manhattan High School principal Greg Hoyt worked alongside Blanck for several years.
“What she has done and what she has taken that virtual program to is unbelievable,” he said. “How you get somebody else to come in and continue that, I don’t know — I’m confident that we will.”
Blanck’s retirement is effective June 30.
Jobe holds bachelor’s degree in secondary education with an emphasis in English, and a master’s degree in curriculum & instruction from K-State.
Agenda documents show Jobe’s scheduled annual salary for the 2026-27 school year as $80,000.