(KNZA)--Riverside USD 114 will be searching for a new superintendent.

The Board of Education at their February 10 meeting accepted, with regrets, the resignation of Travis Githens, effective at the end of the current school year.

He is currently in his first year as superintendent in the Riverside school district. Prior to that, he spent the previous four years as the Junior-Senior High School Principal in USD 284 in Chase County.

Githens has been hired as the new superintendent of Cherryvale USD 447 in southeast Kansas.

He is to begin his new job July 1st.