CMS Board will vote on releasing details of superintendent investigation

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Some CMS school board members are pushing to make the investigation into the superintendent public.

At a back to school briefing earlier this week, Superintendent Dr. Crystal Hill would not answer questions about the more than two month long investigation into what the school board says were administrative and operational concerns.

“I believe that we should share this in the community, let the public understand what we were looking at, and use it as maybe a first or second or even third step to putting this behind us and to move forward,” Shamaiye Haynes, CMS School Board Member said.

Up until now, the board has declined to release details citing employment privacy laws. Board Member Haynes says it’s her duty to be transparent.

WCCB asked for the final bill of the 3 month investigation. We have not yet received it, but we do know the attorneys involved charged $275 an hour.

“If we’re asking questions, they’re good questions, they’re valid questions. It’s not little mundane things about somebody being jealous of somebody or some personal attack that we are, that I am trying to do the right thing for students and kids and our school system,” Board Member Haynes said.

Haynes says she wants the findings to be made public so the board and the community can move on.

“I do want that path forward. I have other things and bigger fish to fry, so to speak,” Board Member Haynes said.

The board will vote on a resolution at the board meeting next Tuesday. The majority of board members will have to vote in favor of the motion to get the investigation released. A legal team would review what the board could release without violating privacy laws.