{"id":354,"date":"2008-11-12T11:31:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=354"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:23:52","slug":"fired-school-superintendent-gets-appeal-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2008\/11\/12\/fired-school-superintendent-gets-appeal-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired School Superintendent Gets Appeal Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WMUR reports:<\/p>\n<p>NORTHWOOD, N.H. &#8212; Dozens turned out Tuesday night for a Northwood school board meeting, as the former school superintendent was allowed to have an appeal hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Judy McGann went before the school board that fired her to appeal the board&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The joint school board is made up of members of the Northwood, Nottingham and Strafford School Boards.<\/p>\n<p>The board&#8217;s attorney said McGann was terminated for giving out overtime pay and stipends, or bonuses, that were not authorized by the board.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney said over the past three years a half dozen people received the unauthorized pay &#8211; about $50,000 worth from grant money. He said the money came from one or two accounts believed to be &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the former school superintendent says it\u2019s a budget mix-up because of different accounting software in different school districts.<\/p>\n<p>Audit results are not yet complete. The school board must still decide whether or not to uphold its firing of McGann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WMUR reports: NORTHWOOD, N.H. &#8212; Dozens turned out Tuesday night for a Northwood school board meeting, as the former school superintendent was allowed to have an appeal hearing. Judy McGann went before the school board that fired her to appeal the board&#8217;s decision. The joint school board is made up of members of the Northwood, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-education","category-school-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}