Blackhawk School Board fires superintendent after ethics violations

[FakeNoose]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette link: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2023/07/21/blackhawk-school-board-fires-superintendent-after-ethics-violations/stories/202307210078

The Blackhawk School Board on Thursday fired Superintendent Robert Postupac who in May was charged with ethics violations after he and a Moon Area School director allegedly used their respective positions to help hire each other’s children.

Board members voted 7-2 to remove Mr. Postupac from the top spot, said Tom King, an attorney with the district’s solicitors Dillon McCandless King Coulter & Graham. Directors Rachel Cline and Dan Jones voted against the measure.

“If you go through that report there is no doubt he knew exactly what he was doing,” school board president Frank Makoczy told the Post-Gazette. “He obviously broke every ethics law that there was period. And that’s on him.”

The decision came after a Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission report found that Mr. Postupac and Mark Scappe, a longtime Moon Area School director, both violated the Pennsylvania Ethics Act after they agreed to help each other’s children receive teaching jobs in the districts they represent.

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Blackhawk and Moon Area school districts are both in the Allegheny County/Pittsburgh area. It seems that so many teaching positions are open and begging for applicants now. Why was it necessary for these men to pull ethical funny business to get their own children hired?

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

1. I read this

Power corrupts...

Pity is, their kids probably could've gotten the jobs anyway considering how badly we need kids here in W PA :/