Des Moines School Board claims it was deceived by Ian Roberts. What to know

[MichMan]

After finding out he misrepresented his resume, they should have dug deeper to investigate the rest of his claims. Instead they let him revise one claim to having a doctorate degree, resubmit it, and hired him anyway. I'm guessing that this may likely derail the US Senate campaign of Des Moines School Board chair Jackie Norris, a former Chief of Staff for Michelle Obama

DES MOINES, Iowa — Members of the Des Moines School Board have faced flak in the wake of controversies stemming from former Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts.

On Oct. 1, the Associated Press reported that Roberts had not completed one of the doctoral degrees he provided on his initial resume to JG Consulting, which DMPS hired to search for superintendent candidates. JG Consulting flagged the error, and the resume was revised to note that Roberts completed all but his doctoral dissertation, which is required to earn such a degree.

DMPS said the board was aware that Roberts did not complete the doctorate from Morgan State when it hired him.

"The Des Moines School Board is also a victim of deception by Dr. Roberts, one on a growing list that includes our students and teachers, our parents and community, our elected officials and Iowa's Board of Educational Examiners, and others," board chair Jackie Norris said in a statement following news of Roberts' false doctoral claim.

https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/des-moines-school-board-schools-superintendent-ian-roberts-controversy-falsifying-degree-work-authorization-ice/524-cc321247-ffcd-4def-9042-6eb9e0dc2422?ref=exit-recirc

[progressoid]

1. Yeah, they (conseervatives) are already blaming Norris even though,

if I understand the situation correctly, she wasn't on the board when he was hired.

[MichMan]

2. Norris won election to the board in November 2021

Roberts wasn't hired until 2023

https://ballotpedia.org/Jackie_Norris

[progressoid]

3. Ah, right.

She was on the board but didn't become board President until 2024.



Regardless, it's clearly a case of out of control DEI by Democrats.

[MichMan]

4. Moving the goalposts I see

You said she wasn't even on the board when he was hired. Now it's that she was on the board, but not president.

The board caught him once embellishing his resume with a degree he didn't have. That should have been a red flag to look closely at the rest of his claims, yet they allowed him to change the one item and resubmit, with apparently no deeper reviews.

The board is looking like fools over hiring someone who falsified their resume, had no legal status, and had a loaded handgun in a city owned vehicle. Either they were willfully negligent in their duties, incompetent, or duped. None of which reflects very positively for them.