Denise Birdwell’s career as a school superintendent ended in 2018 in Scottsdale with a bang.
Her career as an educator ended with a whimper on April 28 when the Arizona Board of Education revoked all her certificates as a teacher and school administrator.
The reasons involved just not her stormy 18-month tenure as Scottsdale Unified School District superintendent but also her relatively quiet term between 2009-15 as Higley Unified’s top executive that eventually gave a state grand jury in 2021 grounds for a 21-count felony indictment…