Just days after the Santa Clara County Board of Education fired their superintendent of schools, there was a new development. Lawyers for Mary Ann Dewan now say her termination was unlawful. In fact, they're questioning everything from the way it was handled, to the board's authority to do it at all.
Just days after the Santa Clara County Board of Education fired their superintendent of schools, there was a new development. Lawyers for Mary Ann Dewan now say her termination was unlawful. In fact, they're questioning everything from the way it was handled, to the board's authority to do it at all.In a letter, Dewan's lawyers demand she be restored to her rightful position.The County Board of Education fired her without cause in a closed session Wednesday.
Santa Clara County is one of only five counties in California that have an appointed superintendent of schools. The other 53 counties elect theirs.The report found a much higher turnover rate, and a more complicated dynamic when the superintendent was beholden to the board and not the public."The reaction to the board of supervisors to our 2018 grand jury report was we're happy with the way things are," says Peter Hertan, who was the foreman of that grand jury.
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