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BRIGHTON -- Members of the Brighton community showed up at Brighton Heritage Academy Tuesday night for an open house in honor of retiring 27J Superintendent Rod Blunck.

Blunck will be leaving the school district at the end of June to be a full-time professor at the University of Colorado-Denver, teaching the Educational Executive Leadership program.

Blunck came to Brighton in 2006. Before that, he was the superintendent of schools in Elizabeth and helped that district recover from a budget crisis that started before his hiring. He was named the state superintendent of the year in 2006.

“Dr. Blunck came at the right time for the needs that we had,” said 27J Board of Education President Joan Kniss. “Being fiscally conservative, Dr. Blunck was able to guide us through the difficult downturns of Colorado's economy over the past several years. Yes, we had to make severe budget cuts, as did every school district in the state. However, Dr. Blunck remained focused on trying to keep the budget cuts from negatively impacting student achievement.”