EVERETT — The president of the Marysville School District’s Board of Directors announced his resignation at a board meeting Monday.
Connor Krebbs, who first joined the board in 2021, will resign on June 7. He is doing so because he is set to take on a staff position at the Marysville School District, he wrote in an email Monday.
He declined to share the position he is seeking “out of respect for the board process as it will need to go to the board for approval,” Krebbs wrote Tuesday.
“The decisions we have made as a Board have not always been easy, but they have always been rooted in what we believed was best for the students of Marysville and Tulalip,” Krebbs wrote in an email. “I am incredibly proud of the direction this district is headed; Greater stability, renewed community engagement, and a dedicated focus on academic achievement and student well-being.”
Krebbs joined the board during a tumultuous time for the district. A double levy failure in 2022, combined with a drop in enrollment numbers, led to the state superintendent placing the district under “binding conditions” in August 2023, which occurs when the district fails to submit a balanced budget.
That financial trouble led to the board voting in January to close two schools, reconfigure its elementary schools to a K-6 model and move an alternative high school to a different campus. The district later voted to keep the alternative high school, Legacy High School, in its current location. The closures will go into effect in the 2025-26 school year and are expected to save more than $2 million per year.
Will Geschke: 425-339-3443; william.geschke@heraldnet.com; X: @willgeschke.
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