The Oskaloosa School Board has chosen a new high school principal. Jeff Kirby was hired at Tuesday’s (2/10) School Board meeting. He is currently director of innovative programs for the Ottumwa school district and prior to that was a teacher and principal in Sigourney and an elementary school principal in Grinnell. Kirby will succeed Stacy Bandy, who announced in December that he would retire at the end of the current school year.