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Ione community urges transparency after principal placed on leave; board reports readmission in unrelated closed session vote
Summary
Dozens of Ione parents, former teachers and residents told the Amador County Unified School District board they support Principal Mike Huss and criticized the timing and communication around his administrative leave. Separately, the board reported out a closed‑session vote to readmit a student in expulsion case 24‑25‑11 (4‑1).
Dozens of Ione residents, current and retired staff, and students’ family members used the public‑comment period of the Amador County Unified School District board meeting to urge transparency after the principal of Ione Elementary School, Mike Huss, was placed on administrative leave late in the school year.
Multiple speakers described Huss as a long‑time community figure and said the district’s public communications and the timing of his removal — during the last week of school — left staff and families confused. “When someone from district office walked in, not knowing who he was, closed the door and that was the last we saw of him that day,” retired teacher Julia Manderson told trustees. “We were left to wonder.”
Speakers urged…
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