The Jordan-Elbridge school board is expected Wednesday to accept the retirement of the same administrator it once planned to have lead the district.
Sue Gorton, assistant superintendent for instruction, has submitted her request to retire effective Sept. 7, according to the agenda for Wednesday night’s school board meeting. Gorton will turn 55 years old in August.
In July 2010, school district officials announced in an open letter and on its website that Gorton would take over that Nov. 1 as interim superintendent.
The district’s suspended high school principal, David Zehner, challenged the appointment, charging the board never voted on Gorton’s appointment in open session.
On Oct. 1, 2010, state Supreme Court Justice Donald A. Greenwood threw out the school board’s appointment of Gorton as the interim superintendent.
Gorton has never spoken publicly about the administrative shake-up, which began around the time former Superintendent Marilyn Dominick clashed with the board and retired early.
The school board then hired former Whitesboro school Superintendent Lawrence Zacher as J-E’s interim superintendent in November 2010. The board fired Zacher on May 16, the day after The Post-Standard reported details about the contract of the district’s director of operations, Paula VanMinos, and that she’d been staying at Zacher’s apartment in Skaneateles. The board fired VanMinos over the contract and her relationship with Zacher, who signed the contract after presenting it to the board in February 2011….
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