Almost two months after Sioux City School District Superintendent Juan Cordova was placed on paid administrative leave, the Sioux City School Board could accept Cordova's resignation after a special Monday board meeting.
That meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the downtown district administrative building. The agenda says the meeting will begin in closed session in ordser to address a personnel matter. Then the seven board members could return to open session and possibly vote on his resignation.
Cordova was hired as superintendent beginning July 1. He was placed on leave, following action by the Sioux City School Board after a lengthy closed session meeting on November 10.
School board and district officials have noted that Iowa law prohibits sharing personnel information to pinpoint reasons for the leave. District spokeswoman Leslie Heying last month told Siouxland Public Medias that when the action was decided, the leave was placed retroactively to November 6.
Cordova has not responded to interview requests over the last several weeks.
In October, the school board approved hiring the Lynch Dallas Law firm in Cedar Rapids as an outside investigator for a personnel matter that has not been publicly pinpointed.
Further back on September 15, a plan to have a closed board meeting collapsed, after Ehmcke said continuing rumors about the superintendent necessitated open talks.
After that meeting, Cordova declined to comment after hearing Ehmcke several times say there are a lot of unflattering rumors about him.
This is the second leave of absence in four months for Cordova.
In the final days before the school year started, the board members in a closed meeting on August 22 approved an unexplained leave of absence for Cordova.
After being away from his job for a week, Cordova returned to his work on August 28, That was the same day that the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners issued an administrator license to Cordova.
After a national search, the board hired Cordova after Superintendent Rod Earleywine retired after three years in June.
Assistant Superintendent Angela Bemus is serving as Acting Superintendent.
