The Edina School Board has voted to enter contract negotiations with Stacie Stanley to become Edina Public Schools’ next superintendent.
Pending contract negotiations, Stanley, the current associate superintendent for Eden Prairie Public Schools, will take over the Edina school district’s top spot after the current superintendent, John Schultz, announced in February his intent to retire at the end of the 2021-22 school year.
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