The search to replace outgoing Clay Central/Everly Elementary Principal Curt Busch is becoming clearer.

According to discussion at the April 27 school board meeting, Heidi Vasher has been offered a contract to serve as director of student services. Negotiations are ongoing, but if she accepts, the title would make her principal of the school and allow CC/E to pay her salary with revenue from the district's Dropout Prevention Fund.

"She would be the face of the school and more or less be the leader of the building," CC/E Superintendent Scott Williamson explained after the meeting.

Busch is reti...