The Covington County Board of Education on Tuesday addressed end of the year personnel issues.

The board accepted the following resignations:

• Louis Paul Cox as maintenance worker at central office.
• Jessica Lynn McCarty as collaborative special education teacher at Fleeta.
• Jessica Diane Byrd as English Language Arts teacher at Florala High School.
• Amanda Hawthorne Martin as English teacher at Florala High School.
• Rhea Yarbrough Golden as special education teacher at Florala High School.
• Jamie F. Kelley as elementary teacher at Pleasant Home School.
• Kimberly Byrd as elementary teacher at Pleasant Home School.
• Christopher Lawrence Mason as social science teacher and head football coach at Pleasant Home.
• Kerry Bennett Alexander as elementary teacher at Red Level Elementary School.
• Melissa Anne Jones as intervention teacher at Straughn Elementary School. This was a grant position, and it is unknown if the system will receive funding for the job.
• Christian Tyler Coe as paraprofessional at Straughn Elementary School.
• Jonathan R. Sumner as social science teacher at Straughn High School.
• Allison M. Farrington as science teacher at Straughn High School.
• Jerry Merrill as bus mechanic at central office.

 

The board transferred:

• Alison Jeffcoat Eubanks from reading coach at Fleeta Junior High to elementary teacher at Straughn Elementary.
• Lori Miller Kinsaul from science teacher at Straughn Middle to science teacher at Straughn High School.

 

The board hired:

• John Kaleb Powell as special education teacher at Florala High School.
• Tracie Hollinghead as bus driver at Straughn High School.
• Felicia June Ganous as bus driver at Straughn High School.
• Jarrod Wooten as general social science teacher/defensive coordinator at Straughn High School. Wooten is coming to the system from Beulah.

 

The board non-renewed the contracts of:

• Mark Price, paraprofessional at Red Level Elementary School.
• Robert Macon Chandler as physical education teacher at W.S. Harlan Elementary School.