Burns Named Riverview High Principal

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Sarasota County Superintendent of Schools Lori White has appointed Riverview High School Assistant Principal Paul Burns as principal of the school effective July 11. Burns succeeds Eric Jackson who served as RHS principal for the 2015–16 school year and has been appointed principal at Venice High School. Burns holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and French from the University of Arkansas, a master’s degree in Educational Administration from Lindenwood University in St. Louis and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of St. Louis. He was a Fulbright Scholar and a National African-American Scholar. He accepted a position as an assistant principal at Venice High School for the 2014–15 school year. He was assigned as an AP at RHS in 2015.

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