Jason Glass, Iowa’s chief state school officer, has been named superintendent of the 6,400-student Eagle County School District.
Glass has been director of the Iowa Department of Education since 2010 but has previous Colorado ties. He worked for the Colorado Department of Education in special education, was a vice president for Qualistar Early Learning in Denver and was the director of human resources for the Eagle district.
Get more background on Glass here.
He succeeds Sandra Smyser, 2013 Colorado superintendent of the year, who earlier this month was hired as superintendent of the Poudre School District.