WENTWORTH â The Rockingham County Board of Education voted 4-3 after a closed session Monday night to fire Rodney Shotwell, longtime superintendent for the 25-school district and a former North Carolina Superintendent of the Year.
By Wednesday night, nearly 1,000 Rockingham County parents and community members had signed an online petition calling for Shotwell s reinstatement. And leaders of the county s NAACP announced a Friday press conference at which they are expected to denounce the board s discharge of Shotwell.
The board gave Shotwell, who has overseen the district s $130 million budget and piloted a hybrid system through the pandemic, 90 days notice, but no reason for his dismissal during the open session of Monday night s meeting, a video recording of the meeting showed.