The district said it found that Marian Kim Phelps had leveraged her position to initiate and influence an investigation of a student who allegedly bullied her daughter
A newly disclosed record reveals what ultimately led to former Poway Unified Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps' firing at the end of April: The school district found she had inappropriately interfered with a school investigation into a student accused of bullying her daughter.
Rather, Phelps used her status to influence the school's investigation from the very beginning, O'Connor-Ratcliff wrote. 'You leveraged your position as superintendent to interfere with investigation from inception and until the conclusion,' O'Connor-Ratcliff wrote in the letter explaining why she would be fired. Phelps had asked the school's athletic director, Waters-Nelson, to launch the investigation in the first place, according to the letter.
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