{"id":233923,"date":"2016-08-09T06:06:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=233923"},"modified":"2016-08-09T06:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:06:52","slug":"pangelinan-acting-pss-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pangelinan-acting-pss-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangelinan is acting PSS commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yvonne \u201cBoni\u201d Pangelinan speaks to students in this file photo taken during the Junior ROTC Drill meet early this year. Pangelinan was appointed yesterday as acting Education commissioner. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yvonne \u201cBoni\u201d R. Pangelinan will be the acting education commissioner of the Public School System after being appointed by the CNMI State Board of Education. Pangelinan is the PSS\u2019 commissioner for student support services.<\/p>\n

Pangelinan, in an interview with Saipan Tribune, said that her appointment is temporary. She will take over as PSS head after Education Commissioner Rita A. Sablan retires at the end of her contract on Aug. 19, 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cI received my appointment today [Monday] and it is up to the BOE how long will I stay as acting commissioner. I know, I\u2019m just on an acting capacity until a new commissioner gets appointed,\u201d said Pangelinan, who has been actively involved in the PSS Early Head Start program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just going to do what I can for the students since we\u2019re going to start the new school year next week. We live by the PSS\u2019 motto of \u2018Students First\u2019 and we\u2019re going to make sure our students will come first,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know this is for a little while and the position is a very challenging one, but I\u2019m going to make the most of it and we\u2019re going to move forward on how the commissioner [Sablan] prepared us. We\u2019re going to follow the program that she started,\u201d said Pangelinan.<\/p>\n

Pangelinan is also in an online degree program where she\u2019s finishing her doctorate in education. Asked if ever the position is offered to her permanently: \u201cI have to finish my doctorate degree first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Board of Education chair Herman T. Guerrero said he\u2019s fully supporting Pangelinan\u2019s appointment in an acting capacity. \u201cShe is a very capable woman to take the helm of acting-ship. I fully support her in that capacity and had the respect of her colleagues and associates. Right now she\u2019s focusing her attention to the opening of the school year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BOE chair said they are still in the process of accepting applicants for the position to be vacated by Sablan next week. Candidates must have earned their doctorate degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst we need to review the job descriptions and make a job vacancy announcement that will most likely go for a month,\u201d said Guerrero.<\/p>\n

The board will review prospective applicants and also conduct interviews before making the final selection and appointment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Sablan, last month, decided not to have her contract renewed and chose to retire instead that, according to her, has been long overdue. She was a former principal at Garapan Elementary School and replaced David Borja, who failed to complete his four-year term at the helm of PSS, in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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