A new principal may soon take over at Manhattan Virtual Academy.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday evening\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Jobe, who would become the second principal in MVA\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
At that meeting, superintendent Eric Reid said Blanck\u2019s legacy is cemented in what she helped launch all those years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a different skillset to understand what the virtual school world is and how that works and how different their budget is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Board member and former Manhattan High School principal Greg Hoyt worked alongside Blanck for several years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat she has done and what she has taken that virtual program to is unbelievable,\u201d he said. \u201cHow you get somebody else to come in and continue that, I don\u2019t know \u2014 I\u2019m confident that we will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blanck\u2019s retirement is effective June 30.<\/p>\n
Jobe holds bachelor\u2019s degree in secondary education with an emphasis in English, and a master\u2019s degree in curriculum & instruction from K-State.<\/p>\n
Agenda documents show Jobe\u2019s scheduled annual salary for the 2026-27 school year as $80,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new principal may soon take over at Manhattan Virtual Academy. On Wednesday evening\u2019s consent agenda, the USD…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[11182,2149,78039,75,84,83,9,24,63,3132,5271],"class_list":{"0":"post-195714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-high-schools","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-metropolitan-area","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-riley-county","18":"tag-schools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}