Tag: Martin Keller Jr.

Ex-Superintendent of Schools for Deaf, Blind Suing State

The former superintendent of West Virginia’s state schools for blind and deaf students has filed a lawsuit seeking to reverse his firing.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Martin Keller Jr. is suing the state Board of Education and state schools superintendent Steve Paine. Keller’s attorneys, Dave Hammer and Christine Glover, say Kanawha County court filed the suit on Monday.

Glover says she hopes the filing leads to Keller’s reinstatement and that a federal lawsuit doesn’t have to be filed.

The board didn’t explain why it fired Keller on Nov. 17. He was hired in August 2015 and officials said he was the first deaf superintendent in the schools’ history that stretches to 1870.

Kristin Anderson, state education department communications director, says a responsive pleading will be filed soon.

Superintendent Named for W.Va. Schools for Deaf and Blind

Martin Keller Jr. has been named superintendent for the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.

The state Board of Education voted unanimously to hire Keller at a special meeting Friday.

Keller himself is deaf. He’ll takes his new role next month at the Romney school. He will replace Lynn Boyer, who announced her retirement earlier this year.

Keller is currently the principal at the Indiana School for the Deaf. He holds numerous degrees, including a doctorate from Lamar University.

Keller has worked 14 years in administration, managing student service programs at the elementary and secondary school levels.

Boyer had been appointed superintendent in 2011, a year after the school was cited by the Office of Education Performance Audits for deficiencies in leadership, curriculum, safety and technology.

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