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State School Board Members Want Review Of Former Charter Schools Chief

Seven Democrats want the other 12 elected and appointed members of the state board of education to join their call for an independent investigation into the resignation of the state's charter schools chief. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports.

David Hansen was the state's top school choice official, but quit last month after it was discovered he left failing grades out of evaluations for online schools.

Democratic state school board member Stephanie Dodd said she's getting conflicting information about his resignation: "There's still so much secrecy as to what happened, the unwillingness to turn over public records, the mistruths that have been stated."

But Republican board president Tom Gunlock says the department of education needs time to do its own investigation.

"We're going to do this right, we're going to demand accountability, and at the end of the day we'll see where it plays out and we'll go from there," Gunlock said.

And Gunlock says there's no need for an independent investigation now, because there's been no evidence to suggest that anyone but Hansen was involved.leave out those failing grades.