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Year in Review — No. 4: Did the Shorewood School Board Force McCann to Retire?

Join us as we take a trip down memory lane and look at the top 10 Shorewood stories of 2012.

As the year winds down, we'll all surely look back at what we've done in 2012. Here at Shorewood Patch, we're doing the same thing with a list of the top 10 local stories of the year. 

Join us as we take a trip down memory lane. The top stories were chosen based on page views in addition to the impact they had on the community.

No. 4 — Did the Shorewood School Board Force McCann to Retire?

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Superintendent Blane McCann said it was simply time to move forward in announcing his decision to retire in the summer, but some in the community believed there was more going on behind the scenes, and accusations surfaced publicly at a School Board meeting on Jan. 11.

A crowd of 50 passionately asked McCann reconsider or blamed board members for either not doing enough to retain him or forcing him to retire. 

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Board members contended it was McCann's choice alone to retire.

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