The Boston Globe reported on March 3rd that Larry S. Taub, 47, of New York, an administrator and teacher at schools for the deaf for the past 15 years, was hired Thursday by the Baxter School Board. The Board hopes that Taub, who begins July 1st, will bring stability and improvements to the long-troubled state school. He becomes the second deaf superintendent in Baxter’s 124-year history. Taub, using American Sign Language and speaking through an interpreter Thursday, said, “I’m very excited about the possibilities (at Baxter) and I look forward to joining the group here and working with them.”

Taub was selected over seven other applicants after a job search that lasted nearly a year. “We feel that Larry can spin things around and guide Gov. Baxter School for the Deaf back on track,” said the board’s chairwoman, Roxanne Baker. “I see him as our guiding light toward providing top quality education to deaf and hard-ofhearing students.” Baxter currently has 50 students enrolled in kindergarten through high school in both residential and day programs at its campus on Mackworth Island. It also provides outreach programs for about 440 students throughout the state. The school, founded in 1876, hired its first deaf superintendent in 1995.