Pekin community rallies around ousted superintendent, calls for entire school board to resign
Updated: 7:34 AM CDT Apr 9, 2024
Pekin community rallies around ousted superintendent, calls for entire school board to resign
Updated: 7:34 AM CDT Apr 9, 2024
with theft and were taken to juvenile detention. New tonight - Some Pekin parents are demanding that the ENTIRE school board resign. <<837-847, "THE ENTIRE SCHOOL BOARD NEEDS TO GO. I KNOW UNDERSTAND THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE NEW TO THE SCHOL BOARD, BUT IT'S CLEAR THAT THEY ARE EASILY INFLUENCED AND WILL NOT STICK UP FOR WHAT'S RIGHT.">> Parents and teachers say the previous superintendent, Derek Philips, was pushed out. They say he suspended the child of a school board member for calling another student a racial slur. Tonight, parents voiced their frustration. << 15:23-15:35, "WHEN DOES ENOUGH BECOME ENOUGH? WHEN DO YOU BECOME THE ONES TO BUILD THIS SCHOOL UP INSTEAD OF TEARING INDIVIDUALS DOWN ONE BY ONE WHO POUR THEIR HEARTS AND SOULS INTO STUDENTS IN THIS BUILDING?">> Philips is on paid administrative leave through June. His contract was SUPPOSED to expire in 2026
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Pekin community rallies around ousted superintendent, calls for entire school board to resign
Updated: 7:34 AM CDT Apr 9, 2024
Some parents in an Iowa school district are demanding that the entire board resign.Parents and teachers say the previous superintendent of Pekin Schools, Derek Philips, was pushed out after he suspended the child of a school board member for calling another student a racial slur.Parents voiced their frustration at a school board meeting Monday. "The entire school board needs to go," one parent said. "I understand there are some that are new to the school board, but it's clear that they are easily influenced and will not stick up for what's right." Philips is on paid administrative leave through June. His contract was supposed to expire in 2026. He tells KCCI he'll be paid through the end of this calendar year.
PEKIN, Iowa —
Some parents in an Iowa school district are demanding that the entire board resign.
Parents and teachers say the previous superintendent of Pekin Schools, Derek Philips, was pushed out after he suspended the child of a school board member for calling another student a racial slur.
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Parents voiced their frustration at a school board meeting Monday.
"The entire school board needs to go," one parent said. "I understand there are some that are new to the school board, but it's clear that they are easily influenced and will not stick up for what's right."
Philips is on paid administrative leave through June. His contract was supposed to expire in 2026.
He tells KCCI he'll be paid through the end of this calendar year.
