Superintendent Jesus Jara attends a CCSD School Board of Trustees meeting at the Clark County School District Education Center Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021.
Published Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 | 1:16 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 | 6:11 p.m.
Jesus Jara is still superintendent of the Clark County School District.
Jara’s last day on the job would have been today after the board of trustees voted in late October to terminate him.
But after one trustee changed her mind last month, the board voted to reverse the firing, making it so the earlier termination vote never happened and apparently leaving Jara’s contract intact until Jan. 15, 2023.
However, Jara released a statement hours after the Nov. 19 reversal vote indicating he was still working with his lawyers to consider options in light of his allegations that certain trustees had subjected him to a hostile work environment.
“Given the concerns that I have previously expressed, we intend to work with the Board and its legal counsel to determine if there is a pathway that would allow me to continue as Superintendent,” he wrote at the time.
A district spokeswoman confirmed today that Jara is still employed by CCSD.
Jara’s noncommittal Nov. 19 statement referenced the harassment and hostility claims he made against some trustees earlier in November, after his termination on Oct. 28 by a 4-3 board vote “for convenience” but before the board backtracked. That also came on a 4-3 vote after trustee Irene Cepeda flipped her vote, citing unspecified open meeting law violations surrounding Jara’s firing.
The board also agreed, by the same 4-3 split, to spend up to $100,000 on an outside consultant to investigate Jara’s hostility allegations.
Through his personal lawyer, Jara sent the district a letter demanding $2 million to drop the accusations.
