Roanoke principal says she was vindicated by testimony before grievance panel
Published: November 9, 2009
Principal Susan Willis of William Fleming High School said nine days of testimony from a dozen witnesses poked enough holes in a state Department of Education report to prove her innocence.
The June report implicated Willis as the ringleader in an initiative to manipulate the schedules of more than 30 special-education students to keep them out of state-mandated Standards of Learning tests.
On Wednesday, the Roanoke School Board received a recommendation from the three-person panel who heard Willis' grievance, and now it is up to the board to determine whether she will remain a school-system employee.
Now that it's over, Willis says she was framed.
"I feel vindicated, and I don't know what the outcome is going to be," she said.
Later this month, Willis plans to travel to Richmond, where the Board of Education is expected to determine Fleming's accreditation status.
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That’s what SHE says. What’s the report say? Will that be made public or will it all get swept under the rug in the name of ‘privacy’? Who testified? Why were they chosen to testify? Since when does the Board of Education investigate itself? Shouldn’t the investigation be done by an impartial body with no vested interest? Just asking.
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