Arkanoff
Center Grove’s superintendent is retiring amid an investigation, a letter to staff and parents says.
Center Grove Community School Corp. sent a letter to faculty and staff Friday announcing that Superintendent Rich Arkanoff was retiring effective that very day. A copy of the letter was provided to the Daily Journal by a recipient. The verbatim text of the letter to staff was also sent to news media as a statement from Scott Alexander, the Center Grove school board president.
The letter says Arkanoff submitted to the school board a request to retire amid an investigation into “inconsistencies with his time off and reimbursement tracking.”
The school board and corporation business department are working with the Indiana State Police and the State Board of Accounts on an investigation into the practices.
While the investigation is early on, the letter says the school board is confident that the investigation won’t find additional discrepancies outside Arkanoff’s time off and reimbursement tracking.
Arkanoff has been with Center Grove schools for 12 years. His name has already been removed from Center Grove’s website.
The school board is expected to vote to approve Dr. Bill Long, assistant superintendent of operations, as interim superintendent at their meeting this week. Long was been with Center Grove since 1998 and has been an assistant superintendent for 20 years.
The full letter can be found below.
