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Residents press board for transparency on superintendent investigation and legal costs
Summary
Multiple residents used public comment to press the Hazel Park Board for details about a recent superintendent investigation, questioning whether board policies were violated, how long the board has known, and how much legal counsel has cost taxpayers.
Several residents used the public-comment period at the Feb. 25 Hazel Park Board of Education meeting to press trustees for details about a recent investigation involving former superintendent Dr. Croupe and to ask for transparency about legal and consultant spending.
Jennifer Jackson, who identified herself and provided a neighborhood address, asked a series of procedural and timeline questions: what board policy might have been violated, who discovered the issue and when, whether the board had known for months, whether board members had engaged with or defended online forums that criticized the superintendent, and whether the…
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