DIXFIELD — The RSU 10 board readmitted a sophomore student and settled contracts with two administrators after two closed-door sessions Monday night.

Superintendent Tom Ward said the young man was expelled last fall after an assault on another student in the school.

His readmission plan had called for ongoing counseling, access to the counselor by the superintendent, community service and working with a tutor on his studies while out of school.

The board also settled new contracts for the current assistant principal at Mountain Valley High School, Chris Decker, and for the current assistant principal and athletic director at Mountain Valley Middle School, Alan Cayer.

Both men will assume new positions in the fall.

Decker will become principal of Rumford Elementary School at a salary of $81,212, up from $77,000 in his current position.

Cayer will become assistant principal and athletic director at Mountain Valley High School at a salary of $77,000, up from $69,000 in his current position.

The board voted unanimously on both issues.

In other staffing matters, the board approved a new method for administering special education that includes paying a $5,000 stipend to a teacher in each school building to serve as a special services building-based coordinator under Special Education Director Clarissa Farrington.

The need for such a position came about because RSU 10 changed Errington’s position from co-director to director by eliminating an administrative position.

A total of eight stipend positions were created.

Errington said these special services school-based positions are needed to assist with paperwork and to serve as the go-to person in each building for student special needs issues. Those who are hired will undergo two days of training with Errington this summer, then meet monthly during the school year.

Board Chairman Jerry Wiley said a report should be made to the board prior to the beginning of the new school year, and again a few months into the school year.

This way of assisting special education administration will be monitored for the year.

Board member Maida Demers-Dobson said it is essential that duties are standardized in all buildings.

“Crises with kids happen during the school day. This will be a very stressful job,” she said. “I support trying this.”

Also on Monday, the board reinstated a middle school social studies position that had been cut from the Buckfield Junior-Senior High School staff during the budget development process.

This position, and virtually everything else in the proposed 2012-13 budget, was contingent on passage of the budget Tuesday, June 12.