New Rice Square principal in the news

Our new principal at Rice Square School (coming to us from Nashua) is in the news up there.

Superintendent Mark Conrad said in April that Healey had expressed a desire to return to the classroom and asked board members to elect him as a special education teacher, which is the area of Healey’s certification.
The Board of Education accepted Healey’s resignation from Fairgrounds at its April 9 meeting and elected him as a special education teacher, with the school yet to be determined.
However, Healey said Tuesday that the special education position was a back-up plan. He decided in the fall to move on from Nashua, but he still wanted the special education teaching position to fall back on “in case things didn’t work out,” he said.
“I wanted to continue as a principal in another setting,” he said. “That’s what I was pursuing in February until I got this job.”
Healey is now principal at Rice Square School, a public elementary school in Worcester. He started work this month but has no plans to move from his home in Merrimack. The commute is about an hour, and he leaves early enough in the morning to beat the traffic.