QUINCY, MI (WTVB) – The separation agreement worked out between the lawyers representing the Quincy Community School District and longtime Quincy High School principal David Spalding calls for Spalding to get his back pay for this school year as well as a $90,000 payment in July to give up his tenure rights.
The agreement was hammered out late Monday afternoon and approved by the Quincy Community Schools Board of Education during a special meeting.
The minutes from the March school board meeting showed that a majority of the people who spoke expressed their support for Spalding. His backers asked the board to wait until the judicial process was complete and to not make their decision based on emotion.
Spalding, who had been the principal at Quincy High School for 17 years, will have $85,000 in back pay restored after he had been on administrative leave.
He was placed on leave when questions were raised about how he and former Superintendent Craig Artist handled sexual misconduct allegations against former teacher and Information Technology Director Jason Ferrell.
Quincy Interim Superintendent Martin Chard says Spalding has agreed not to take any legal action against the school district. Spalding served long enough to earn tenure and possibly come back to the district as a teacher.
But the agreement calls for Spalding not to be employed now or in the future.
The board had to take action on Spalding’s contract or else it would have automatically renewed for the next school year.
Spalding and Artist have both been charged with a misdemeanor count of failure to report child abuse. No Branch County District Court trial date has been scheduled yet. Due to legal disagreements, an evidentiary hearing will be held May 16, 2018.
