The former principal of Red Oak Community High School has taken a new position at Saint Albert Catholic Schools. The Council Bluffs Daily NonPareil reports Jedd Sherman is teaching biology, anatomy and physiology and environmental science at the private high school in Council Bluffs. He spent 11 years teaching at the high-school and middle-school level.
Sherman resigned from Red Oak on June 30th after accepting a $100,000 settlement, which would have included unemployment benefits had he not found a new job. He has also been involved with a complaint he filed with the Iowa Public Information Board over the school board’s decision to hold closed-session discussions about his employment.
Red Oak school officials never accused Sherman of any wrongdoing. Many of his students, as well as others in the community, called for him to be retained as principal. The district never made public the reason they began the process of firing him, but a May 6 notice cited a failure to meet expectations. Sherman said at the time he was being retaliated against for making complaints.