Doris Hope-Jackson Former Willow Run Schools Superintendent Doris Hope-Jackson has claimed in a lawsuit that a long-running conflict she had with former school board President Sheri Washington stemmed from a spurned lesbian advance Washington made shortly after Hope-Jackson was hired. That spurned advance set Washington on a path to destroy ...
Voters in the Willow Run school district threw Sheri Washington off the school board Tuesday, adding another layer to the ongoing saga in the troubled district. Washington, the school board president, had been the driving force in the board's removal and eventual firing of former superintendent Doris Hope-Jackson. Hope-Jackson is ...
Doris Hope-Jackson’s controversial tenure with the Willow Run school district came to end at 6:28 p.m. tonight, following 17 days of due process hearings. The school board unanimously voted to fire her for misconduct and a material breach of her employment contract. And Hope-Jackson, the former superintendent, has already filed a ...
When the Michigan Department of Education gave its approval to the Willow Run school district’s deficit elimination plan, it did so with a word of caution, district officials said Thursday night. That’s because while the plan relies on cuts, it’s also heavily based on seeing enrollment increases - something the ...
Updated at 1:40 p.m.: This story has been updated with details from the police report filed with the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department.Moves by the Willow Run school board to fire Doris Hope-Jackson and Laconda Hicks were made in retaliation after the pair of administrators filed a police report against the ...
Former Willow Run school Superintendent Doris Hope-Jackson will return to the district this week to face a hearing on charges that she misappropriated funds. The school board will start the due process hearing at 1 p.m. Wednesday with a special meeting. The board is expected to immediately go into closed ...