Former Colfax supt. to head state school administrators

Former Colfax School superintendent, Joel Aune, has been elected as president-elect of the Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA). Aune will step in as president in July of next year.

Aune served as superintendent in Colfax for seven years before he was hired as superintendent of the Snoqualmie Valley School District in 2005, where he currently serves.

He started his career as a teacher and then assistant principal at Cashmere, and then went to Walla Walla where he was in elementary principal before he was hired to head Colfax schools after Donald Cox retired.

Aune was raised i...