South Bend School Board calls emergency meeting about Todd Cummings

This story was updated to add new information.

South Bend – The South Bend Community School Corp. (SBCSC) Board has called for a public public meeting until Friday 14 February to vote to place superintendent Todd Cummings on administrative leave with salary.

The meeting will take place on Friday at. 17:30 in Brown Administration Building, 737 Beale St. In addition to the action by putting cummings on administrative leave, the agenda Sent out on Wednesday, February 12th includes the appointment of a temporary superintendent “If necessary.” The public will also have an opportunity to tackle the board on the two agenda items before a vote is held.

A source with the board told Tribune that the board will evaluate Cummings’ decision not to cancel the school on February 6 when the road conditions were ice -terminated. The agenda says the administrative leave will last until a “full investigation is completed” in the case.

Under Board Statutes 0122.1The board has the power to choose the Superin tent and “evaluate and monitor the performance of the performance in the administration of politics.” Statutes 0164.3 say the board may convene an emergency meeting in the event of “serious and impending threat to the company’s health, safety or welfare” would be detrimental to the effort to reduce or respond to the threat. “

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