'Get It Together' | Newport Community Calls for Forensic Audit Amid School District's Financial Crisis

'Get it together' | Newport community calls for forensic audit amid school district's financial crisis

Parents and former teachers in Newport are demanding a forensic audit of Newport Independent School District as the district faces a $3.9 million deficit and cuts teaching positions.

Newport Schools to pay superintendent $175K in exit agreement

Newport Superintendent Tony Watts’ duties with the district will end on June 30 after he and the board of education came to an agreement on his resignation.Watts resigned as superintendent on May 15 after an over two-hour closed session meeting with the school board. At a special meeting on June 4, after speaking in a closed session, the Newport Board of Education passed a motion to sign the settlement and release agreement and covenant not to s…