Braintree's Liberty School losing administrator to South Elementary School in Hingham

BRAINTREE – Tara Boening, the principal of the Liberty Elementary School for the past eight years, will be leaving at the end of the school year and move to a Hingham school.

A Hingham resident, Boening will become principal of the South Elementary School, the Hingham schools said in a news release. She will take over from Mary Eastwood, who is retiring after 45 years in the Hingham schools, the last 11 as principal at South.

Braintree School Superintendent James Lee told the school committee this week that a search will get underway for a new principal at Liberty.

Boening began her career as a Grade 6 classroom teacher in Brooklyn, New York. She later taught for nine years in Mattapoisett before moving on to become assistant principal at Robinson Elementary School in Mansfield, a job she held for three years before taking the Braintree job.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a Master of Education degree in Elementary Education from Molloy College, a postgraduate certificate of study in leadership and curriculum from Northeastern University, and a postgraduate certificate of study in school management and leadership from Harvard University.

Reach Fred Hanson at fhanson@patriotledger.com.

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