Rick Abel (right) at a Maricopa High School football game earlier this year. Abel had been acting principal at MHS and will be interim principal the rest of the year.

Rick Abel and Thad Miller, two acting principals in the Maricopa Unified School District, will continue their positions and posts through the 2017-18 school year, school officials said Friday.

The district made the announcement soon after confirming the resignation of former Maricopa High School Principal Renita Myers.

The MUSD Governing Board will vote to approve Myers’ resignation during a meeting Nov. 8.

Beginning Nov. 3, Abel’s and Miller’s respective titles change from “acting principal” to “interim principal,” according to a news release from the district.

Abel began as acting principal at MHS Oct. 16. MUSD Superintendent Steve Chestnut said former MHS Principal Renita Myers resigned Oct. 23.

After he was transferred to the high school earlier this school year and back again, Maricopa Wells Middle School will keep Miller on campus, now as its interim principal until May.

The news release stated the district will consider a decision regarding the principal position at each school for the 2018-19 school year “in the next few months.”

Thad Miller

“I am very pleased that Mr. Abel and Mr. Miller will be serving as principals for the rest of the school year,” Chestnut stated. “They are both excellent leaders and I greatly enjoy working with them. Both are greatly respected by students, staff and parents.”

Abel has worked as a district principal since 2009 at Santa Rosa Elementary, MWMS and now MHS.

Miller, a veteran MUSD employee and lifelong Maricopa resident, began work in 1997 at the district’s Maricopa Middle School as a science teacher.