Report reveals questions over former Carlton superintendent's stipends, reporting to state

Report reveals questions over former Carlton superintendent's stipends, reporting to state

CARLTON — The former superintendent of Carlton Public Schools received over $60,000 in additional income from the district that may have been authorized by a committee but was never approved by the full school board, an investigation concluded. The report also reveals a second multifaceted complaint was made by a staff member against former superintendent Donita Stepan. It questioned Stepan's counting of enrolled students and required instructio…

Carlton investigation: Full board didn't approve extra payments

The former Carlton superintendent who abruptly resigned in April collected nearly $60,000 in stipends that weren’t approved by the school board as a whole, the school district investigative results revealed this week. Released to the Pine Knot News in response to a data request following Donita Stepan’s resignation on April 20 — two days after a three-hour closed board meeting about the investigat...