Editor’s Note By Jon Anderson

The 2023-24 school year starts very soon, and there seems to be quite a bit of change in the air.

The Hoover Board of Education has started looking for a new superintendent, with current Superintendent Dee Fowler on July 11 announcing his second retirement, which will be effective Sept. 30. Stay up to date with the superintendent search on hooversun. com.

Our cover story for this month talks about another big leadership change, with Jennifer Hogan being picked to replace John Montgomery as principal at Hoover High School, the largest high school in the state. Hogan appears to be a popular choice; the story about her hiring had more than 700 likes on the Hoover Sun Facebook page.

There also are a lot of changes among assistant principals in the school system this school year, noted in the story. The cover story also addresses academic initiatives, enrollment changes, capital projects, technology upgrades and new websites for each Hoover public school. Change isn’t just in public schools.

Two of the biggest private high schools in the area — Briarwood Christian and John Carroll Catholic (both of which draw a lot of students from Hoover) — also have new principals this year. See page 23 for a story on John Carroll’s principal. We’ll have more on Briarwood’s principal in another edition. You can also learn about the Hoover Library Theatre’s lineup for the 202324 season on pages 16-17 and get Sports Editor Kyle Parmley’s preview of the Hoover and Spain Park football seasons on pages 24 and 26. Happy reading!