Welch has served as principal of Wright Brothers Middle School in recent years. It was not immediately clear whether she has experience in athletic administration.
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The news came in an email from DPS Superintendent Elizabeth Lolli to district staff, announcing numerous changes in administration, including new principals at several schools.
Asked for more detail on the moves, district spokeswoman Marsha Bonhart sent a short emailed statement from Lolli.
“The district is assuring that the right people are in the right positions,” Lolli wrote. “Several administrative moves have been made. We will likely have a few more to make before we have assembled the team that will help move the district forward academically.”
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Lolli’s email also shows Sean Henry as the new principal at Dunbar High School, and does not list current Dunbar Principal Crystal Phillips as moving to any other principal assignment. Lolli said Phillips has applied for other positions, and decisions on those are pending.
Reached late Thursday, Baker said he wishes he could have finished what he started as AD, but is “definitely excited to be able to continue to work with students and families in our district.”
The entire school district was placed on three years of probation by the OHSAA in 2017 after Dunbar briefly tried to lose a football game on purpose, to engineer a certain playoff outcome. OHSAA singled out Baker for his role in that case, but Baker maintains some of the claims made against him were untrue.
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Then this year, that probation was extended after a boys basketball scandal. Dunbar failed to suspend several players who came off the bench for a brawl, and OHSAA removed the team from the postseason after one of those players appeared in a tournament game.
The district successfully sued to get Dunbar reinstated, and was highly critical of the OHSAA, saying that player should have been eligible. But DPS later had to admit it was wrong and apologize after better video became available.
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