Willow Run Schools begins due process hearing for Laconda Hicks
The Willow Run school district began a due process hearing this morning for Laconda Hicks, the distict's student services administrator.
The hearing is the culmination of months of controversy surrounding Hicks and former Superintendent Doris Hope-Jackson. Both are now facing hearings on charges of misappropriating funds and defrauding the district.
Willow Run school board counsel Joe Mosier and board president Sheri Washington start a due process hearing for Laconda Hicks this morning.
Tom Perkins | For AnnArbor.com
Hicks is currently on paid administrative leave.
Board members and district officials declined to comment on the hearing before going into closed session this morning, but said there would be no vote today. Board President Sheri Washington said the hearings could take up to several days.
Hicks' hearing comes days after AnnArbor.com reported she received a contract extension and raise that was submitted by Hope-Jackson and signed by former board president Claudette Braxton after Braxton resigned from the board.
Tom Perkins is a freelance writer for AnnArbor.com. Reach the news desk at news@annarbor.com or 734-623-2530.
Comments
ypsimom41
Wed, Apr 14, 2010 : 8:14 p.m.
If Cambridge hasn't gotten "wind" of her dishonest research, maybe the wind needs to blow harder. hint, hint
mama247
Wed, Apr 14, 2010 : 7:57 a.m.
Claudette Braxton should hang her head in shame...... I doubt whether Laconda Hicks will ever feel the merest hint of compunction for the many ways she has abused and misused the Willow Run community with her ruthless ambition. Wonder if that university has gotten wind of her dishonesty with her "research subjects"?
lumberg48108
Tue, Apr 13, 2010 : 11:49 a.m.
wow Claudette Braxton really broke the public trust on this one... this has all the trappings of a Detroit PS issue - right here in our own back yard! One question for her - how could she not realize this would become public? I attended many WRCS meetings in the past 10 years and she was always one I trusted to protect the school when others did not... all I can say is - WOW
CountyKate
Tue, Apr 13, 2010 : 11:40 a.m.
I know this is a required part of the termination process and I applaud the board for proceeding with everything they're doing to get both Hicks and Hope-Jackson out of the district's pockets. But, I hope they are also looking into legal remedies for what Claudette Braxton did to the district she SAID she was so fond of. If the allegations that have been presented publicly thus far prove true, she aided and abetted Hicks and Hope-Jackson in defrauding the district and deserves to be held accountable. She has just besmirched her entire record with Willow Run Schools.
Life in Ypsi
Tue, Apr 13, 2010 : 11:02 a.m.
Once again more of our tax dollars being wasted to fix another WR mess.