The Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board will meet tonight for a hearing concerning their suspended superintendent Tammy Whitfield.
Whitfield has been on suspension for nearly a year, most of that unpaid, and tonight’s hearing is part of the process to determine if she should be fired from the district. That meeting will be held at the Blairsville High School Library, but it will not be open to the public or to news media. A representative of Dodaro, Matta and Cambest, the district’s solicitors, said last night that the hearing will be private and no decisions will be made tonight. The earliest that the district can make a decision would be November’s school board meeting.
While no official reason for Whitfield’s suspension was given, Whitfield has maintained that the suspension is in retaliation for her suggestion that the two high schools in the district be consolidated. Whitfield has filed a federal lawsuit saying that the suspension violates the state’s whistle-blower laws, and that lawsuit names the district and five board members.
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