{"id":360,"date":"2008-11-13T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=360"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:23:52","slug":"mcgann-hearing-sidetracked-then-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2008\/11\/13\/mcgann-hearing-sidetracked-then-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"McGann Hearing Sidetracked Then Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forumhome.org\/default.asp?sourceid=&#038;smenu=1&#038;twindow=&#038;mad=&#038;sdetail=6980&#038;wpage=1&#038;skey\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Forum &#8211; McGann Hearing Sidetracked, Then Continued<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five more hours of testimony on Wednesday, November 12, still did not bring the public hearing on the firing of SAU #44 Superintendent Judith McGann to a close. The hearing, which will be reconvened on December 1 at 6:00 pm at the Northwood School, has strayed far from the initial charges against McGann.<\/p>\n<p>These were almost forgotten as testimony focused on the grant writing and administration process, the privacy of SPED records, a discussion of the handling of harassment charges against former business manager William Tappan by the Title IX administrator, the relationship between a former SAU treasurer and a bookkeeper, and just about everything but McGann herself and the charges against her. The actual charges brought by the SAU\u2019s attorney Edward Kaplan in his opening statement&#8211;that she failed to abide by SAU rules, was insubordinate and incompetent\u2014got lost in the \u201ckitchen sinking\u201d of the cross examination of witnesses who clearly supported McGann.<\/p>\n<p>McGann herself will be the final witness on her behalf. There is some possibility that the SAU\u2019s attorney will bring forth a rebuttal witness, before the summations by both sides. The joint SAU #44 Board will then deliberate and either confirm their original decision or reinstate McGann.<\/p>\n<p>A detailed report on the hearing to date will be available soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forum &#8211; McGann Hearing Sidetracked, Then Continued Five more hours of testimony on Wednesday, November 12, still did not bring the public hearing on the firing of SAU #44 Superintendent Judith McGann to a close. The hearing, which will be reconvened on December 1 at 6:00 pm at the Northwood School, has strayed far [&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-360","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\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}