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<p style="text-align:justify">EDUCATION Commissioner Cynthia Deleon
Guerrero on Monday appointed Hopwood Middle School principal Jonas
Barcinas as the new program manager of Chamorro-Carolinian Language and
Heritage Studies.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The commissioner also named Koblerville
Elementary School principal Rizalina R. Liwag as the acting principal of
Hopwood while KoES vice principal Jeremiah Benavente will be the
Koblerville school’s acting principal.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">All the appointments took effect Monday.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">After eight years as Hopwood principal,
Jonas Barcinas will assume the leadership of the CCLHS program which
aims to promote and preserve local languages and traditions.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">“I thank principal Jonas Barcinas for
his willingness and readiness to step up in our need to work with our
public school students in a larger capacity,” Education Commissioner
Deleon Guerrero said Monday.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">CCLHS was being managed by two program
managers. One of them passed away about two years ago, while last week
the remaining manager assumed another position, she said.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">“So we have to make some critical and
hard decisions. With Jonas leading our CCLHS program, we are responding
to and recognizing one of our priorities,” the education commissioner
added.<br><br></p><div class="gmail-img_caption gmail-none" style="float:none;width:800px"><img src="http://www.mvariety.com/images/photos/2017/01-Jan/31/Hopwood.jpg" alt="Education Commissioner Cynthia Deleon Guerrero and other Public School System officials join Hopwood Middle School faculty and staff in giving principal Jonas Barcinas, standing center, the “Hilitai chant.” Barcinas is the new director of Chamorro-Carolinian Heritage Studies. Contributed photo" title="Education Commissioner Cynthia Deleon Guerrero and other Public School System officials join Hopwood Middle School faculty and staff in giving principal Jonas Barcinas, standing center, the “Hilitai chant.” Barcinas is the new director of Chamorro-Carolinian Heritage Studies. Contributed photo" class="gmail-caption" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><p class="gmail-img_caption">Education
Commissioner Cynthia Deleon Guerrero and other Public School System
officials join Hopwood Middle School faculty and staff in giving
principal Jonas Barcinas, standing center, the “Hilitai chant.”
Barcinas is the new director of Chamorro-Carolinian Heritage Studies.
Contributed photo</p></div>
<p style="text-align:justify">Lawmakers earlier reminded PSS
management of the need to fill the vacancy, and local and federal
funding for the program could have been affected had the manager's
position not been filled, Variety learned.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Deleon Guerrero said Barcinas’s vast experience wil be very beneficial to the CCLHS program.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">“We need strong leaders like him who can help our students,” she added.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Liwag, Hopwood’s acting principal, said the PSS central office “really needs Jonas.”</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Liwag, who is currently pursuing a
doctorate in teaching and learning, has been with PSS for 25 years — 16
years in the teaching profession and nine years as a principal.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">“Wherever we are needed, we are ready to serve,” she added.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Benavente, the acting principal of KoES, has been vice principal since 2012, and he believes he is ready for his new duties.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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