The new superintendent for the Paradise Valley Unified School District has been placed on administrative leave after the board reviewed unspecified complaints and consulted legal counsel.
Todd Cummings was hired in April and started in July. Previous to his Arizona employment he was the superintendent of the South Bend Community School Corporation in Indiana, where he had also been put on administrative leave earlier this year.
According to South Bend NPR affiliate WVPE, Cummings departed the Indiana district amid allegations that the students’ grades had been manipulated.
A WVPE article in April about his hiring by the Paradise Valley district was headlined “Arizona district hires Cummings despite South Bend investigation.”
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