Shelton district hiring will begin earlier

The Shelton School District plans to begin recruiting employees for the 2022-2023 school year in February, a few months earlier than usual.

"We'll know what we're doing early on, and that's going to make such a huge difference, I believe, in the quality of people we'll get," Linda Arnold, the district's executive director of human resources, said at the Shelton School Board's Dec. 14 meeting.

Arnold added, "The crux of this (hiring) was happening during the summer, and it stymied us, because by then, other districts had taken candidates that might have been awesome for the Shelton School Distr...