A Durham Public Schools principal and two administrators worked for months to lie to investigators after a photo surfaced of a student with autism tied to a chair, court records allege.
Tounya Wright, principal of Eno Valley Elementary School; Ayesha Hunter, the school system’s senior executive director of employee relations; and Tanya Giovanni, the deputy superintendent for administrative, legal and compliance services, face a combined 17 charges of obstructing a criminal investigation and perjury, according to court records and police.
The charges are tied to the school system’s investigation of alleged child abuse by two Eno Valley educators, which The News & Observer previously reported last February…