From the Lakeland Central School District:
The Board of Education has unanimously named Lorrie Yurish as interim principal at starting July 1.
Yurish has been an assistant principal at Lakeland High School since 2007-2008. She has also served the district as an elementary school assistant principal and as the district's Director of Grants and Testing. She began her career in Lakeland as a teacher aide before becoming a third grade teacher at in 1995. She also taught fifth grade at Lincoln-Titus.
Yurish graduated from SUNY-Cortland with a BS in Early Secondary Education and earned her Masters in Curriculum at Western Connecticut University.
She will replace Lakeland High School Principal Cheryl Champ who will be taking a position as Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction in the Sewanhaka Central High School District on Long Island.
