BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 The search continues for a permanent principal at Hanover Elementary School.<\/p>\n
Ralph Andrews has declined the offer, according to an agenda item on tonight\u2019s Bethlehem Area School Board meeting.<\/p>\n
Currently a principal in Palmerton Area School District, Andrews was tabbed as the new principal in September, pending board approval.<\/p>\n
BASD Superintendent Jack Silva, in an email to LehighValleyNews.com on Monday afternoon, said the school district is currently interviewing candidates to fill the Hanover Elementary position.<\/p>\n
“We anticipate the board approving a new principal on Monday, Dec. 15,” Silva said.<\/p>\n
“As far as Mr. Andrews\u2019 reason for declining the offer, that was for his own personal reasons and as such is a personnel matter that is not for me to discuss publicly.”<\/p>\n
The previous Hanover Elementary principal, Erin Hines, was placed on leave in March after she was arrested and charged with drunken driving. She had crashed into three cars in a shopping center parking lot.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem Area School District<\/p>\n
Andrews is principal at both Parkside Education Center and S.S. Palmer Elementary School in the Palmerton Area School District, Carbon County.<\/p>\n
Prior to his current position, Andrews was assistant principal at Roberto Clemente Charter School, Allentown.<\/p>\n
The previous Hanover Elementary principal, Erin Hines, was placed on leave in March after she was arrested and charged with drunken driving. She had crashed into three cars in a shopping center parking lot.<\/p>\n
Hines had led the school in Hanover Township, Northampton County, since 2019.<\/p>\n
Eric Fontanez, supervisor of BASD’s Office of Equity, has served as acting principal at Hanover Elementary since Hines’ incident.<\/p>\n
Andrews began his career in education in Palmerton Area, teaching sixth grade, as well as eighth-grade math.<\/p>\n
Andrews holds a master\u2019s degree in educational leadership from Cabrini University, a master\u2019s degree in classroom technology from Wilkes University and a bachelor\u2019s degree in elementary education from Penn State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 The search continues for a permanent principal at Hanover Elementary School. Ralph Andrews has declined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23253,153,1412,155,154,13965,23254,23255,19845,10022,23256],"class_list":{"0":"post-37975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-basd-superintendent-jack-silva","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-area-school-district","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news","13":"tag-bethlehem-pa","14":"tag-eric-fontanez","15":"tag-erin-hines","16":"tag-hanover-elementary-school","17":"tag-principal","18":"tag-ralph-andrews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}