Andy Dey

After a tumultuous year, Eugene 4J is clarifying how the school district operates and what it expects from its superintendent. It comes as the district starts its search for a new leader.

The school board will use a committee of its own members and a search firm to find the district's new leader.

The board voted to enter final contract negotiations with Colt Gill, the former superintendent of Bethel School District and the former director of the Oregon Department of Education.

On Wednesday, the 4J board asked the community what qualities they should look for in an interim superintendent.

On Wednesday night, the school board unanimously voted to mutually end its relationship with its superintendent and start the search for an interim leader.

The District must take some action on Andy Dey’s contract by March 15.

The Eugene 4J school board has voted to purchase and remodel a shuttered downtown bank building into their new district offices.

At last night’s Eugene 4J school board meeting, Superintendent Andy Dey asked the board to direct him to draft a contract for a re-imagined partnership with the Eugene Police Department.

Eugene Police say two students at South Eugene High School are behind the series of threats aimed at the school this month. Each time–four altogether–officials responded to the school and students and staff were evacuated.

In April, the Eugene 4J School Board voted to demolish the North Eugene High School building. The decision creates uncertainty for the Yujin Gakuen Japanese immersion school, which was hoping to use the building after North Eugene students vacated it.

With just one day remaining in the school year, the Eugene 4J school board named its new superintendent Thursday night.

South Eugene High School’s principal says as the community responds to the change in its mascot, it’s important to know the decision follows years of…