TEKONSHA, MI (WTVB) – The Tekonsha Community Schools Board of Education has fired Tekonsha Elementary School Principal Jennifer McGuff after a stormy summer of accusations against the district’s superintendent.
WWMT-TV reports the action came during a special meeting Wednesday.
It came after Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert decided not to file charges against Tekonsha Community Schools Superintendent Jeffrey Kawaski. He was accused by McGuff of making unwanted sexual advances towards her. Gilbert said there were what he called “insufficient facts” in the Kawaski matter.
McGuff claimed in a June interview with WWMT-TV that Kawaski sexually assaulted her in his Marshall apartment in March 2017.
Kawaski denied all of the allegations against him.
Accusations by a community member about sexual misconduct involving Kawaski and McGuff were unfounded, according to an investigator hired by the school board.
Kawaski placed McGuff on paid, non-disciplinary administrative leave in April 2018 for alleged workplace misconduct, which led McGuff to file a complaint under the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The Battle Creek Enquirer reports the school board fired McGuff because she lied to the district about attending a professional development conference and used a school computer for personal business.
