2 More Principals Assigned To Schools -- Stanford's Shifts Double Those Of Average Year

The Seattle School District has named new principals at 11 more schools, bringing to 28 the number of schools and programs with new administrators assigned for next year.

Yesterday's announcement covers the second round of changes. Last month, when he announced the first group of 17 new assignments, Superintendent John Stanford said he was making an effort to better match principals' skills to the schools they lead.

Two vacancies - at Seattle Evening School and Orca at Columbia alternative elementary school - have yet to be filled, said school spokeswoman Dorothy Dubia, meaning that in all, 30 of the district's 97 schools and programs will have new leaders when school opens.

The number of new principals is at least double the number reassigned in an average year, according to school-district figures.

Last year, there were 15 reassignments and in 1994 there were 10, Dubia said. Every year, some principals ask for reassignment, Dubia said.

In addition to the 30 new principal assignments next year, Stanford has tapped seven principals for central-office jobs and one other for special assignment.

Most of the assignments announced yesterday were to fill vacancies left after the first round of principal moves. Stanford had been criticized - particularly by parents at Rogers Elementary School - for moving too fast, assigning principals before school PTAs or site councils have had a chance to interview candidates and make their recommendations as the superintendent promised they could.

Of the new principals named yesterday, three come from outside the district.

Here's a list of the latest new principals:

-- Franklin High School: Mark Robertson, who has been principal of Evergreen Primary School in University Place near Tacoma, will replace Sharon Green, whose move to central administration was announced earlier. Robertson also formerly was an assistant principal at Decatur High School in Federal Way.

-- Sealth High School: Tom Bailey, a former Rainier Beach High School principal and most recently coordinator for all schools in West Seattle, will replace Joan Butterworth, who moved to central administration. Lupe Barnes, departing principal at High Point Elementary, will be one of Bailey's assistants.

-- Lowell Elementary: Beverly Walker will move from John Muir Elementary to replace Ken Seno, who previously was appointed coordinator of special education in the central administration.

-- John Muir Elementary: Carmen Chan, formerly a Seattle elementary principal who's been a principal for the past three years in the Lake Washington School District, will return to replace Walker.

-- Rogers Elementary School: Elaine Woo, promoted from head teacher at Bryant Elementary School, where she helped develop the district's hands-on science program, replaces Evette Mardesich, who moved to Broadview-Thomson Elementary.

-- Schmitz Park Elementary: Sharon Potter will leave Adams Elementary, where she's been head teacher to replace Joan Armitage, who retired.

-- Stevens Elementary: Pamela Roberts, a science teacher at Washington Middle School with experience as an administrator in the Renton School District, will replace Joanne Franey, who has moved to central administration as an elementary-school coordinator.

-- Viewlands Elementary School: Cathy Profilet, a science teacher at Eckstein Middle School and sometime consultant to Bill Nye, the Science Guy, will replace Larry Bell, who has moved to Hawthorne Elementary.

-- Whittier Elementary School: Greg Imel, a principal intern at Hawthorne, will replace Ellen Punyon, who moved to Wing Luke Elementary School.

-- Head Start/Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP): Mary Carr, an early childhood specialist for the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, will become program manager, replacing Clint Richards, who retired.

-- New Option Middle School (NOMS): Wayne Hashiguchi, a principal and assistant principal in the Mercer Island School District, will replace Stephanie Haskins, who moved to Madison Middle School.

Among the district's principals, Ed Brown, who was principal at View Ridge Elementary last year, remains unassigned. He's asked for an administrative job, according to Dubia.