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Scandal-Plagued Queens High School Principal Ousted: Report
Hillcrest High School's principal is leaving at the end of August, the New York Post reports. The DOE found he'd inflated graduation rates.
JAMAICA HILLS, QUEENS — A Queens principal found to have inflated graduation rates is leaving at the end of August, according to a news report.
Hillcrest High School principal David Morrison told colleagues in an email that the school superintendent let him go, the New York Post reported. Morrison started the job in 2014.
Morrison's five years as principal were scandal-ridden.
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The NYC Department of Education found he had artificially boosted graduation rates by allowing 172 kids to get credits through bogus online classes, the Post reported.
Morrison is also named in a $10 million lawsuit claiming he turned a blind eye to his assistant principal rewarding staffers in exchange for sex, according to the Post.
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He declined the Post's request for comment.
Read the full story in the New York Post.
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