---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-077753"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCHL"
cik: "0000866729"
company_name: "SCHOLASTIC CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T12:19:00.698163+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Scholastic EVP General Counsel Hedden retires; Chris Lick appointed successor

## Summary
- Andrew Hedden retires as EVP, General Counsel & Secretary effective May 31, 2025.
- Hedden joined Scholastic in 2008; will remain as Senior Counselor.
- Chris Lick, current Deputy General Counsel, appointed EVP, General Counsel & Secretary effective June 1, 2025.
- Lick has been with Scholastic's legal dept since 2008; holds JD from Cardozo School of Law.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-077753
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCHL
- cik: 0000866729
- company_name: SCHOLASTIC CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866729/000095017025077753/0000950170-25-077753-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866729/000095017025077753/schl-20250521.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-077753
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-077753.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-077753.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Chris Lick was appointed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at SCHOLASTIC CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
  source text: appointed Chris Lick, presently Deputy General Counsel of the Company, as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary succeeding Mr. Hedden, effective June 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866729/000095017025077753/0000950170-25-077753-index.htm
- Executive change
  Andrew S. Hedden departed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary at SCHOLASTIC CORP.
  - Action: retirement
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary
  source text: accepted the retirement of Andrew S. Hedden, a named executive officer of the Company, from his positions as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Company effective May 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866729/000095017025077753/0000950170-25-077753-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.