Sources name 10th RPS principal targeted for replacement
Jeremy M. Lazarus | 4/26/2019, 6 a.m.
Regina Farr has been identified as the 10th Richmond Public Schools principal being replaced when the school year ends in the latest leadership shake-up.
Sources confirmed that Ms. Farr, principal at Bellevue Elementary School in Church Hill, is on the list of principals being replaced.
Sources said Ms. Farr already has told her staff that she will retire at the end of the school year.
Other principals to be replaced that previously were identified include Reva Green at George Wythe High School, Tamera Mines at Thomas Jefferson High School and Dr. William Royal, principal at John Marshall High School.
According to sources, the list also includes Cynthia Heckstall, principal at Henderson Middle School, and principals at five other elementary schools: Kate Outten at Blackwell, Ellena Banks at Fairfield, Linda Simms at E.S.H. Greene, Kara Lancaster-Gay at Overby-Sheppard and Dr. Sherry Wharton-Carey at Elizabeth D. Redd.
Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras has not publicly identified any of the principals to be replaced. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS