Dana Williams, Jamestown High School interim principal, was appointed to his new role in December. "I noticed a kind of a change in just the whole aura of the building. I think people are just happier and I feel that I'm going to support them." P-J photo by Jordan W. Patterson

Dana Williams will remain as Jamestown High School’s principal through the end of the 2020-21 school year.

The Jamestown Public Schools Board of Education unanimously approved the extension of Williams’ memorandum of agreement between the district and the Jamestown Principals’ Association during a video conferenced board meeting Tuesday.

“I’m very pleased to make this recommendation to the Board of Education this evening,” said Dr. Bret Apthorpe, Jamestown Public Schools superintendent. “Tina Sandstrom (district chief director of schools) and I charged him with bringing a sense of calm to the high school and to put the focus back on student achievement. Not only has he done well with that, but here we find ourselves in a once in a lifetime pandemic. And they say it’s true that these moments really define people and their leadership. We felt as a leadership team, and I know the board felt this as well, that now more than ever we need some predictability in our leadership and we once again went to Mr. Williams and we had great conversations with him and asked him if I was to make this recommendation to the board would he accept, and he said he would.”

A complete story will appear in Wednesday’s edition of The Post-Journal.