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LA charter school parts ways with business chief, cuts principal’s salary

The governing board of El Camino Real Charter High School announced Wednesday night that Marshall Mayotte will no longer be the school’s chief business officer by the end of December and that Executive Director David Fehte is taking a cut in both salary and length of contract. The “letter to the community” was posted online following a four-hour closed session board meeting in which possible “discipline/dismissal/release” of one or more employees was discussed amid a controversial probe by LAUSD. By Brenda Gazzar, LA Daily News

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