TVUSD honors Ritter in last board meeting before retirement
Temecula Valley Unified School District staff and board members honored Superintendent Tim Ritter at the board’s July 21 meeting, the final one before Ritter’s impending retirement.Board members and staff presented gifts to Ritter — sent to his family prior to the virtual meeting — and thanked him for his years of service to the district. Ritter has worked for Temecula Valley Unified since 2001, when he was hired as principal at Chaparral High School. He became superintendent in 2010.According to Deputy Superintendent Jodi McClay, who was appointed in March to serve as TVUSD’s next superintendent, Ritter began teaching in 1985 as a high school biology teacher in the Chaffey Joint Union High School District in San Bernardino County.“I think anyone who has worked with