Decatur school superintendent David Dude indicated a decision is imminent on Susan Riley, the Decatur High media clerk he fired, then suspended instead after a community outcry.
Dude wrote in an email to the AJC that “I am meeting with several staff members this afternoon to inform them of decisions I have made and will be releasing a statement on Facebook once those conversations have occurred.”
Riley’s attorney David Hughes, reached by phone, didn’t want to confirm that his client was one of those staffers.
About 25 Riley supporters attended Tuesday’s school board meeting and two spoke, but otherwise no mention was made at the meeting of Riley or the review surrounding her.
Dude told the AJC before Tuesday’s meeting that the “Riley piece has concluded, but I can’t comment on anything else that might be going on.”
The school district hired investigator Jonathan Poole on March 7 for $235 an hour to investigate Riley’s firing while also trying to determine, in Poole’s words, “whether or not the superintendent received accurate information about the reason for (Riley’s’) termination.”
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