The school district has 61 schools and 32,403 students, rates a 5 overall from GreatSchools. net, some 82% of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch program, and they need these kinds of distractions.
June 19, 2008 - Chastain Middle School is looking for a new principal. The principal at the school resigned a year ago to take a job in California. Parents claimed students were having sex, using drugs and fighting on school grounds That pricipal had replaced Michael Ellis.
Michael Ellis was fired by Superintendent Earl Watkins and then won a sexual harassment lawsuit against Jackson Public Schools after his termination. The lawsuit claimed that he was fired because he refused Watkins' advances. Watkins denied the allegation.
And in 2006, former Chastain teacher Carla Hughes was arrested and charged in connection with the slaying of Avis Banks. Banks was the fiancee of another Chastain teacher.
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TT entry for Carla Hughes.
Another Jackson Public School teacher not mentioned was Elicia Hughes, who was arrested and tried for the murder of her husband. A jury convicted her, but a judge overturned the verdict the grounds that one of the reasons the state gave for striking a potential juror was not race neutral. A second jury found her not guilty of shooting her husband six times.
TT entry for Elicia.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Jackson, MISSISSIPPI
