Dexter Suggs resigns as Little Rock school superintendent

Source: Arkansas Times

This just in from state Education Department:

Today, Commissioner Johnny Key reached an agreement with Dr. Dexter Suggs that resulted in Dr. Suggs’ immediate resignation as superintendent of the Little Rock School District. Mr. Marvin Burton will serve as interim superintendent for the Little Rock School District.

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Suggs joins former Lt. Gov. Mark Darr and former Circuit Judge Mike Maggio as public officials who lost jobs as a direct result of public record digging by Blue Hog Report, a blog operated by Little Rock lawyer Matt Campbell. In this case, Campbell was supplied a copy of Suggs' thesis by someone else interested in Suggs' background and he did research available widely on Google and elsewhere to sniff out academic plagiarism.

Read more: http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/04/21/dexter-suggs-resigns-as-little-rock-school-superintendent

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Another chapter in the seemingly never ending saga of the Little Rock School District.

It is beyond disappointing that blatant academic dishonesty could be overlooked in a doctoral dissertation. The State Board of Education doesn't seem too concerned- they paid him to leave!

The evidence that his dissertation was plagiarized is overwhelming, but the state negotiated a severance package that includes approximately $250,000.00 in payments over the next several months.