The superintendent of the Paradise Valley Unified School District could soon be terminated.
The district’s governing board began the process for dismissal Tuesday night.
At a special meeting, the board adopted a statement of 14 charges against Superintendent Todd Cummings, including exhibiting an improper attitude, engaging in disrespectful conduct toward subordinate employees and failing to disclose pertinent information on his application for employment.
The board was not tasked with determining if the allegations are true, but deciding if the district has sufficient cause to dismiss Cummings if they are true.
The board voted unanimously to serve Cummings with the statement of charges. If he does not request a hearing within 10 days of receiving it, Cummings will lose his job. He was hired in April and put on leave in October.
He left his old district in Indiana amid allegations that the students’ grades had been manipulated.
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