Soap Lake School Board asks for superintendent’s resignation

Board declares financial emergency, asks for ‘modified education plan’

SOAP LAKE — First-year Soap Lake School District superintendent Aaron Chavez will not be returning for the 2024-25 school year, following action by the Soap Lake School Board Monday. “My status is, I’ve been asked by the board to resign,” Chavez said Tuesday. Chavez has been asked to stay through the end of the 2023-24 school year. Board chair Curt Dotson and board members Signe Knudson, Donald Clark and Nicole Frazier did not return phone calls asking for more information on the decision.