A second Northern Kentucky superintendent has been permanently barred from renewing their certification to be a superintendent in Kentucky schools, according to a decision from the Education Professional Standards Board.
On May 2, the board received notice that then-Newport Superintendent Tony Watts failed to report mandatory information about a Newport educator as required by law.
LINK nky is not naming the educator in question because he was not charged with a crime, but, according to a board order, Watts suspended the educator based on findings from the Ohio State Board of Education regarding the educator’s prior work in Ohio. Those findings indicated that the educator was recommended for permanent revocation of his license in Ohio and was deemed by a medical evaluator “unfit to be around children unsupervised.”…