Former Carlock Elementary principal lands job with District 87

Posted on June 10, 2015

Former Carlock Elementary principal Alison Hampton has been hired as assistant principal for Bloomington Junior High. (Photo courtesy Unit 5)

By Joe Ragusa

BLOOMINGTON – Former Carlock Elementary principal Alison Hampton wasn’t out of a job for long. Hampton has been hired as the new assistant principal for Bloomington Junior High School.

Hampton was let go by Unit 5 after Carlock Elementary and Towanda Elementary merged principals. District 87 superintendent Barry Reilly said he can see Hampton as a principal again in the future.

“We’re always looking for people in those assistant principal roles who aspire to be building leaders themselves and certainly she has the qualifications to do that down the road,” Reilly said.

Reilly said Hampton’s experience with children from low-income families made her stand out among the other candidates.

Hampton replaces Leslie Alappattu, who left for a job with the Illinois Elementary School Association. The IESA governs elementary school athletics.

In other action Wednesday, a tentative budget for the McLean-DeWitt Regional Vocational System and the Bloomington Area Career Center was approved by the facility’s fiscal agent District 87.

Both budgets are balanced. The vocational system is expected to spend $973,000 and the career center is expected to spend $1.2 million. A public hearing on the budgets will be held in August before they are enacted.

Joe Ragusa can be reached at [email protected].

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