Tyler To Retire As Baldwin County Superintendent

Longtime Baldwin County School System Superintendent Eddie Tyler has announced his retirement, AL.com reported. Tyler will officially retire on June 30, concluding a 50-year career in education, with 11 at his current post. His tenure as superintendent will end on April 1, when he will transition into a voluntary consultancy role to assist Interim Superintendent Marty McRae. McRae, previously an assistant superintendent, is to serve in the interim role for no more than 180 days. Nash Campbell, the school system’s attorney, will oversee the superintendent search, which he expects to complete before July 1. Tyler oversaw an unprecedented capital building campaign and helped develop the nationally recognized “Pay-As-You-Go” program, supported by a permanent extension of a 1-cent sales tax, which generated the revenue needed for the district’s aggressive building campaign. He was hired in 2015 shortly after a failed special election left the district without resources to build new schools. At the time, the system relied heavily on portable classrooms scattered across the fast-growing county.