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Recall language approved in effort to oust TCAPS board members

Taylor Wizner
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Interlochen Public Radio
Recall efforts are underway to remove Sue Kelly, Matt Anderson and Pam Forton from the TCAPS board.

Language to recall three members of the Traverse City Area Public Schools Board was approved Tuesday.

The recall efforts aim to remove Sue Kelly, Matt Anderson and Pam Forton from the board. They have 10 days to appeal.

Ian Ashton is with TCAPS Transparency — the group behind the recall petition — and he says there’s a toxic culture on the board of deception and bullying.

“It just made me… not even angry, it made me really sad for the leadership we are showing to our kids,” Ashton said.

The group needs 12,000 signatures of support in order to take the next steps. It also plans to recall more members of the school board, Ashton said.

They’re targeting the members that were behind the alleged forced resignation of former Superintendent Ann Cardon.

Anderson plans to appeal the petition, because he says Cardon wasn’t fired — she resigned.

“The only viable option left at that time was a mutual agreement to part ways,” he said.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Forton and Kelly did not respond to requests for comment.

 

Max came to IPR in 2017 as an environmental intern. In 2018, he returned to the station as a reporter and quickly took on leadership roles as Interim News Director and eventually Assignment Editor. Before joining IPR, Max worked as a news director and reporter at Michigan State University's student radio station WDBM. In 2018, he reported on a Title IX dispute with MSU in his story "Prompt, Thorough and Impartial." His work has also been heard on Michigan Radio, WDBM and WKAR in East Lansing and NPR.