A top official in the Kannapolis City school system is set to retire.
Dr. Debra Morris will leave her post as the district’s assistant superintendent Dec. 1, but she plans to continue working in education.
“I think that if I do this now, there may be some opportunities at the university level coming my way,” she said.
Morris taught an adolescent literature course at Wingate University while she was teaching English at Piedmont High School.
“I always knew at some point that was something I would go back to,” she said.
Morris began her education career as an English teacher at Piedmont High School in Monroe.
She went on to receive her master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte through the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program. Her first job in administration was as an assistant principal at South Iredell High School.
Morris was the principal of West Lincoln High School and the director of secondary education for the Lincoln County school system before coming to Kannapolis eight years ago.
She lead A.L. Brown High School for four years before stepping into her current role.
Read the complete story in Tuesday’s Post.