CMCSS director of schools Luna-Vedder gets one year extension on contract

Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools Board of Education approved a one-year extension to the director of schools, Jean Luna-Vedder.

During the July 25 formal session of the CMCSS Board of Education, the board voted unanimously to extend the contract of Luna-Vedder as she ends her first year in the position.

“I appreciate the School Board’s confidence in my leadership," said Luna-Vedder. "My continued commitment is to collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure CMCSS is the best school system in Tennessee for students to attend and employees to work. We have much to celebrate and be proud of in Clarksville-Montgomery County. Together, we will continue to focus on our areas of improvement to get better every day.”

Luna-Vedder was chosen as the CMCSS director of schools with a 6-0 vote from the school board May 2022, after interviews with other potential candidates, the board and teachers.

"It feels like coming home," Luna-Vedder told The Leaf-Chronicle last year after the vote. "I'm excited about the opportunity to be able to go back in the district and working with a really great team, and you know, make strides forward for the district.

This was not Luna-Vedder first time working for CMCSS. From 2007 to 2019, Luna-Vedder worked in various positions in CMCSS before she began working as the chief of student readiness at the Tennessee Department of Education in Nashville.

While working for the DOE, Luna- Vedder was in charge of CMCSS' Grow Your Own apprenticeship program with Austin Peay State University, a pipeline used to address the teacher shortage.

Reporter Kenya Anderson can be reached at kanderson@nashvill.gannett.com or on Twitter at KenyaAnderson32.

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