Idaho public schools chief was unaware of harassment allegations against aide
The former chief aide to State Controller Brandon Woolf took a nearly 50 percent pay cut when he suddenly jumped in August to a job with the State Department of Education.
Sherri Ybarra, Idaho’s superintendent of public instruction, did not know about sexual and racial harassment claims against Dan Goicoechea when she hired him as her new deputy for governmental affairs.
That’s according to Idaho Education News, which cited an internal education department email obtained through a public records request.
Goicoechea left Ybarra’s office a month later, just as another former Controller’s Office employee filed a tort claim alleging that he displayed a wide range of improper and aggressive behavior..
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