WELLSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - The West Virginia Department of Education says it improperly provided a departing school superintendent with data belonging to a school board member.
News outlets report Brooke County Schools Superintendent Toni Shute resigned Wednesday. That’s after Shute was given data belonging to Board of Education Vice President Stacy Hooper, who’s also a Marshall County Schools special education teacher.
The education department says Shute is accused of improperly identifying herself. The department says she was granted access to Hooper’s professional e-mails containing student data and a copy of some of Hooper’s online file storage.
Education department staff attorney Sherri Goodman Reveal says Shute didn’t have authority to access Marshall County student data. Hooper says measures have been taken to notify families whose information was breached.
Shute couldn’t be reached for comment late Wednesday.
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