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  • ICYMI: Talking to the New State Archivist
  • International Teachers in NC Face Visa Uncertainty
  • Support Unhoused Families Before This Weekend’s Storm
Credit: Illustration by Nicole Pajor Moore

Good morning, readers.

Durham Public Schools’ deputy superintendent Tanya Giovanni quickly posted her $10,000 bond and left the Durham County jail after a little over an hour yesterday morning.

Giovanni and two other DPS administrators were indicted this week on various charges of obstructing justice and perjury. They’re innocent until proven guilty—but it’s definitely a blow to Superintendent Anthony Lewis.

Giovanni, a top member of Lewis’s cabinet, had emerged as a key player in ongoing meetings with the DPS teachers union and as Lewis’s representative on the school board’s influential policy committee.

Giovanni, Senior Executive Director of Employee Relations Ayesha Hunter, and Eno Valley Elementary School Principal Tounya Wright have all been suspended with pay since December 19.

The charges are related to the investigation (but not the actual incident) of a 2024 child abuse case in which a staff member tied an autistic student to a chair at Eno Valley Elementary School. In an email to families, Lewis noted that “these allegations were reported to law enforcement and the instructional assistants involved resigned shortly thereafter.”

Lewis is holding a press briefing this morning. He seems unlikely to announce anything new, but we’ll keep an eye on the cases and the fallout.

Have a good Thursday.

—Chase

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