Colo. District Debates Policy On Alcohol-Related Charges.

After suspending its superintendent, Stuart Yager, for an arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol, a Colorado school board has found that its interim leader was convicted of similar charges. Debbie Rose, the president of the school board in Pueblo School District 70, said her panel suspended Yager on May 19, 2003, after learning he had been arrested on alcohol-related charges. Less than a week after Yager's suspension, the local news media reported that Mike Mauro, whom the board put in charge of during Yager's absence, had been convicted of driving while impaired by alcohol as recently as 2000. Rose said district rules did not require that Mauro inform the board of his past misdemeanor when he was made interim superintendent, but the panel is considering such a policy.