{"id":6182,"date":"2012-06-25T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T12:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2012-06-25T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T12:48:41","slug":"morning-read-lake-placid-school-crisis-nears-end-richards-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/06\/25\/morning-read-lake-placid-school-crisis-nears-end-richards-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Lake Placid school crisis nears end, Richards to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x952274882\/LPCS-Board-doesnt-renew-contract\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a> is reporting this morning that the Lake Placid board of education will not renew the contract of Randy Richards, the controversial superintendent who has been a lightning rod for months.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Board of Education indicated that they will not be renewing my contract,\u201d he said in a statement released over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Richards has been the target of much acrimony and outrage since it became public knowledge that, in February 2011 during a personnel discusion, he told Lake Placid Middle School Principal Katherine Mulderig he needed someone \u201cbitchier\u201d to manage the \u201cbitchy\u201d teachers at the elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged he\u00a0made the statement and apologized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Richards was the target of a petition effort to remove him from office, and his tenure became the focus of the most recent school board election. \u00a0The case has also sparked litigation. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x952274882\/LPCS-Board-doesnt-renew-contract\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting this morning that the Lake Placid board of education will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,925,6851,6853],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}