Dyal announces retirement

Posted on March 11, 2016

With a short one-sentence statement during Tuesday’s Taylor County School Board meeting, Superintendent of Schools Paul Dyal announced he would not seek re-election this year, leaving a third local race without an incumbent in the 2016 election cycle.

It came at the end of the relatively short meeting, with Dyal discussing a number of informational items with the board. He had just finished talking about the district receiving state funding to construct a new Perry Primary School (see related story), when he said, “And lastly, I’m
going to retire at the end of my term.”

PHOTO: Superintendent of Schools Paul Dyal, center, announced his retirement Tuesday. He was first elected to the superintendent’s seat in 2008 and was unopposed in 2012. He joins longtime board member Darrell Whiddon, left, who has also announced his retirement from the board. Danny Glover Jr., right, has registered as a candidate for school superintendent.

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