When Carly Bouch’s 9-year-old daughter Lillie goes back to school in the fall, it’ll be with a new principal. The change isn’t sitting right with the incoming fourth grader. Lillie addressed school board members and the superintendent during a meeting Monday night. “We don’t deserve this,” she said. “This is simply heartbreaking. You are making […]
Oakwood High School principal Paul Waller has resigned, according to a spokesperson from the district. Waller’s resignation follows a months-long investigation into theft in the girls’ locker room. He has been on administrative leave since Feb. 2. >>PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Principal remains on leave as investigation into locker room theft continues at Oakwood HS In January […]
The parents of a Huntington Beach, California middle-school student are calling on their son’s principal to be fired after they say he was discriminated against over his beliefs. Saint Bonaventure Catholic School student Jimmy Heyward, who was running for “Commissioner of School Spirit & Patriotism,” was “completely humiliated” after principal Mary Flock barred him from […]
Corye Franklin, principal of Lexington’s Henry Clay High School, has accepted the same position at a Fort Wayne, Ind. high school, district officials there said. The Fort Wayne Community Schools Board of School Trustees onMay 13, approved Franklin as the new principal at Wayne High School, a news release posted on its website said. Fayette […]
The Grapevile-Colleyville school board voted 6-0 Monday to go after former Colleyville Heritage High School principal James Whitfield for legal fees. Newly elected Place 2 trustee Dalia Begin abstained from the vote. It comes after Whitfield unsuccessfully sued the district and board member Tammy Nakamura for disparaging him during a June 2022 school board panel […]
Former Washington High School principal and legislator Jan Nicolay died of cancer Saturday, and people from across the state are joining in remembering her lifetime of achievements and sharing the story of her legacy. She was the first woman to be named a secondary education principal in Sioux Falls when she started at WHS in […]
The principal of a central Florida elementary school was arrested this week and accused of holding a child in a room for 40 minutes, putting him in a chokehold and hitting him with a charging cable. Dontay Akeem Prophet, 33, who had been principal of Destiny Leadership Academy in Ocala, was arrested Saturday on charges […]
May 15—It’s been more than three months since Oakwood High School’s longtime principal was ordered to take paid administrative leave. The region’s highest-performing school district has declined interview requests, instead issuing a statement that the investigation continues, fewer than two weeks before graduation and the end of the school year. Principal Paul Waller’s suspension came […]
An Alabama middle school principal was arrested and charged in the cold-case deaths of three people in Georgia more than a decade ago. The victims were found Jan. 13, 2013, after an officer in Union City, Georgia, saw a 2010 Dodge Charger abandoned in Fulton County, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release […]
Donte’ Tichenor Sr., the principal of Lexington’s Booker T. Washington Elementary, said this week in a social media post he will be principal of the Success Academy starting July 1. Superintendent Demetrus Liggins made the announcement this week, Tichenor said. He began his career as an educator in Fayette schools in 2009 and became Booker […]
The alleged abuse of a Marion County student by his school principal was caught on camera. Body-camera footage captured the moment 33-year-old Dontay Prophet was confronted about what deputies said happened inside a classroom. Channel 9 obtained a video that shows a portion of that alleged abuse at Destiny Leadership Academy in Marion County. Prophet’s […]
CHOCTAW, Okla. (KFOR) – A Choctaw-Nicoma Park school principal got a big surprise Monday morning. After working over 20 years there, the mayor dedicated an entire day to her. That day is May 13. Misti Tye didn’t expect to come into work Monday morning to cheers, hoops and hollers in her direction. “I just can’t […]