The school board in Pittsburg, Kansas,
hired a new principal
for Pittsburg High School. Amy Robertson had a stellar resume, with a
PhD in education and decades of experience, many of which were as an
educational consultant in Dubai. As soon as the hiring was announced,
students who worked on the school newspaper,
the Booster Redux, wanted to find out more about their new principal. What they found was disturbing.
The
student journalists had begun researching Robertson, and quickly found
some discrepancies in her education credentials. For one, when they
researched Corllins University, the private university where Robertson
said she got her master’s and doctorate degrees years ago, the website
didn’t work. They found no evidence that it was an accredited
university.
“There were some things that just didn’t quite add up,” Balthazor told The Washington Post.
The
students began digging into a weeks-long investigation that would
result in an article published Friday questioning the legitimacy of the
principal’s degrees and of her work as an education consultant.
They
couldn't even find evidence that Robertson had a bachelor's degree.
Less than a week after the school paper published its story,
Robertson resigned the position.
But questions remain as to why the school board did not look into
Robertson's qualifications. Its a good thing the student journalists
did. Read
the account of how the teenagers uncovered the story at the Washington Post.
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