{"id":570,"date":"2009-01-16T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T19:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2009-01-16T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T19:19:04","slug":"devore-to-retire-from-branson-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2009\/01\/16\/devore-to-retire-from-branson-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"DeVore to Retire from Branson Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sherry DeVore, assistant superintendent, will retire from Branson Schools next June after 27 years of service.  In addition to her current position with the district, DeVore has been a special education classroom teacher, a process coordinator for special services and an assistant elementary principal.  She has been in public education for the past 32 years.<\/p>\n<p>Although leaving the Branson District, she will continue work in education.  DeVore will join the staff as an instructor and consultant for the southwest Missouri satellite campus of Lindenwood University.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brad Swofford has been named assistant superintendent for the Branson School District replacing DeVore.  He is currently the Junior High principal for the district \u2013 a position he has held since 2001.  Swofford has also been a classroom teacher and coach at the High School and has been employed with the Branson district since 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Swofford earned his graduate and undergraduate degrees from Southwest Missouri State University.  He holds a doctorate in education from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville.  Swofford will assume his new role with the district July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sherry DeVore, assistant superintendent, will retire from Branson Schools next June after 27 years of service. In addition to her current position with the district, DeVore has been a special education classroom teacher, a process coordinator for special services and an assistant elementary principal. She has been in public education for the past 32 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}