Superintendent Diana Greene left a Duval County School Board meeting Wednesday with the same job she had walking in, despite rumors that her future was imperiled by teacher misconduct complaints.
CBS-47/FOX-30 newsroom Action News Jax reported anonymous claims that Greene was negotiating terms to retire before her contract ends in 2025, but that couldn’t be immediately confirmed.
Asked after the meeting whether she had comment on rumors involving her or pressure to resign, Greene answered simply, “no.”
The meeting was a step in a school district review of a growing list of complaints involving faculty at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, as well as a recent claim that the district hadn’t forwarded dozens of complaints about district employees to a state office that tracks professional conduct.
Greene endorsed the review, to be carried out by a Fort Lauderdale-based law firm that has represented dozens of Florida school districts in employment law issues.
"I am in full support of this investigation,” the superintendent said. “… If there are things that are wrong with our systems, we need to get it fixed. And I am confident that we will resolve these issues.”
The school system has been dogged for weeks by complaints from Douglas Anderson alumni and families following the March arrest of longtime vocal teacher Jeffrey Clayton on charges of lewd conduct with a student.
School district records reflected a series of complaints involving Clayton, and on Tuesday state...
SOUTHEAST Mo. (Heartland News) - The Missouri Attorney General announced felony charges against 17 people in Medicaid fraud cases, including some in the Heartland. According to Attorney General Ca...