Parents and community members demanded more transparency from the Francis Howell School District Board of Education during a Thursday night meeting.

The calls for more information during the public comment portion of the meeting focused on unanswered questions surrounding the district’s decision to pay out former superintendent Mike Dominguez, who resigned weeks before the start of the school year.

The school board paid Dominguez nearly $230,000, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, after he resigned from his position in late July. He never worked for the district. Dominguez then accepted a position as assistant superintendent in Shawnee, Oklahoma .

Christy McLaughlin, a Francis Howell parent, was one of a handful of community members who asked for more information.

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