Next ML schools leader will be challenged by Veltri's high bar

For the first time in nearly 14 years there will be a new pilot flying the plane in the Medical Lake School District, when school starts in the fall.

Current superintendent Pam Veltri informed staff in a March 5 email that she would resign in order to take a new job, July 1, as an assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction with the Mead School District. She will submit her official letter of resignation at the March 25 school board meeting.

Veltri will leave Medical Lake after 18 years on the job, first as an assistant superintendent, then elevated to the head of the school distri...