Dinning will work to attract teachers to PSD
By Terry Murry on Wednesday, July 10th, 2024 in Columbia Basin News More Top Stories
PENDLETON – The Pendleton School District is no longer without a human resources director. Kevin Dinning is now holding that position and says that the problem isn’t getting teachers to choose rural school districts. Instead it’s to recruit them to go into the education field at all.
“I think there’s a draw for them to come to rural school districts,” he said. “There’s a sense of safety. There’s a sense of independence. There’s a sense of space that people are looking for.”
Dinning served as principal of Washington Elementary School before taking his administrative position. Prior to that, he was school superintendent in Ione. When he moved to Pendleton, he happened across one problem that the Pendleton City Council has made a top priority to fix – housing.
“I think one of our biggest barriers in our town is access to quality affordable housing,” he said. “That’s a difficulty that I thin everybody in Pendleton experiences.”
