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Washington County school board holds executive session for expulsion, votes to carry out closed-session action
Summary
The Washington County Board of Education met Jan. 8 in a special-called executive session under KRS 61.810(1)(f) for an expulsion hearing, then voted 5-0 to carry out the action discussed in closed session and adjourned at 6:49 p.m. The minutes do not disclose details of the action.
The Washington County Board of Education met in a special-called executive session at the Washington County TEL Center in Springfield on Jan. 8, 2025, to hear an expulsion matter and later voted to carry out the action discussed in the closed session.
The session opened at 5:00 p.m. The minutes list Curtis Hamilton, Jeremy Thompson, Carissa Harley, Sherri Cheser and Ray Canterberry as present and record J. Robin Filiatreau Cochran, Ed.D., as board secretary and the minutes' submitter.
Board member Carissa Harley moved that the board enter executive session under KRS 61.810(1)(f) for an expulsion hearing; Ray Canterberry seconded the motion and the board approved it 5-0. The minutes cite the statutory authority for closed sessions (KRS 61.810(1)(f)), which governs personnel and student disciplinary hearings in Kentucky.
After the closed session, Ray Canterberry moved and Sherri Cheser seconded a motion to exit executive session; the board approved 5-0. The board then approved, by a 5-0 vote on a motion by Harley seconded by Cheser, “to carry out the action as discussed in Executive Session.” The minutes do not identify the specific action, the individual involved or any sanctions or next steps; they record only the board’s approval to implement whatever was discussed in closed session.
Finally, the board approved a motion to adjourn, made by Sherri Cheser and seconded by Ray Canterberry; the minutes show the meeting adjourned at 6:49 p.m. The minutes were signed by J. Robin Filiatreau Cochran, Ed.D., board secretary, and approved by Curtis Hamilton, board chair.
The board’s minutes record formal motions and unanimous votes on each procedural step but do not disclose substantive details of the expulsion hearing, consistent with the closed-session statutory exemption cited in the minutes. No additional information about the subject of the hearing or the board’s subsequent actions was included in the record provided.
