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Public comments press board over coach suspensions, superintendent suspension and staff cuts
Summary
Dozens of residents, students and staff addressed the board, urging reinstatement of football coaches, asking for transparency on the suspended superintendent and questioning recent staff reductions and contracts.
A large number of community members, students, parents and district staff used the March 25 public‑comment periods to press the Newburgh Board of Education on the district’s handling of a fall‑season locker‑room incident, the suspension of football coaches, recent personnel notices and the suspension of the superintendent.
Speakers described the impact of the athletic suspensions on students and urged the board to reinstate coaches. Jim Rafferty, a longtime district resident, read a letter from Cadet Lieutenant Tyler Rafferty of the U.S. Military Academy, who wrote that the head coach “consistently goes above and beyond his duties as a coach, treating every player as if they were his own child” and urged the board to reconsider not rehiring the staff; Rafferty read the letter into the record on behalf of his son.…
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