Nancy Sebring resigns from Omaha superintendent job

Mary Stegmeir & Jens Manuel Krogstad:

In a stunning reversal of fortune, former Des Moines Superintendent Nancy Sebring went from presiding over Iowa's largest school district to losing a new job she had landed to lead the Omaha schools, after disclosure she had used Des Moines school equipment to send and receive sexually explicit emails.

The Omaha school board voted Saturday afternoon without discussion to accept her resignation from the job she was to start July 1.

The vote capped a rapid-fire series of developments that unfolded in less than 20 hours:

8:46 p.m. Friday: The Des Moines Register publishes an online story reporting that Sebring's abrupt, earlier-than-scheduled departure from the Des Moines district May 10 came after she was confronted by school board members about the discovery of the explicit emails.

Outgoing Madison Superintendent Dan Nerad interviewed for the Omaha position.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 3, 2012 7:35 PM
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