More: Chalked Up: CCBC assistant awarded 'cheesy' kindergarten performance at local schoolĪs of Friday morning, the Moon Area School District had not publicly announced any actions against Scappe or his role on the board. District Attorney in Pittsburgh to assist in this process. School board President Frank Makoczy said the district would ask the Beaver County District Attorney's Office and U.S. During these years, the commission says he also failed to identify all reportable sources of income.ĭuring Blackhawk School Board's Thursday night meeting, the board announced a special counsel will begin the process of charging Postupac for the ethics violations. The ethics commission is also asking Postupac to properly file new ethics reports for roles he held during 2016, 20. More: South Side Area board dissolves pronoun committee, keeps solicitorīoth men were found guilty of violating Pennsylvania's ethics laws and were each ordered to pay $750 in fines. Investigators say Scappe had instructed Moon Area School District Superintendent Donna Milanovich to place the hiring on the school board agenda, but at the time, no such position had existed and the new position was never publicly advertised. In exchange, Postupac's daughter was given a job as a full-time elementary school teacher in Moon Township. Postupac had intervened despite this initial elimination from the interview process, paving the way for the council member's son to get a full-time job in the school district as a gym teacher. In the report, the commission found Scappe's son did not make it past the first round of interviews at Blackhawk for an open position. Postupac was also cited for failing to file proper ethics and income reports in his roles at the Blackhawk and Western Beaver Area school districts and as a member of the Community College of Beaver County's Board of Trustees. A recent investigation by the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission found a local superintendent and a school board member conspired to trade jobs for their children.Īccording to the report released by the ethics commission on May 16, Blackhawk School District Superintendent Robert Postupac admitted to working with longtime Moon Area School District board member Mark Scappe to trade jobs for their children in their respective districts.

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