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Principal contests DCSS suspension

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ALBANY, GA -

A Dougherty County principal is fighting her punishment for falsifying forms to qualify for free lunches for her children. 

Morningside Elementary principal Gloria Baker served a 15-day suspension without pay in November when she was arrested.

Her attorney has asked for a hearing, claiming the school board should not have docked her pay.

"That's always a risk when you're offered a settlement so to speak of any, of any infraction and it's happened before, Superintendents have offered to suspend people for five days or 30 days or whatever and then they've gone to the board and the board has made a harsher sentence," said DCSS Board Attorney Tommy Coleman.

A special prosecutor assigned to handle criminal charges against Baker and Board Member Velvet Riggins says he plans to take the cases to a Dougherty Grand Jury soon.

Board Member Darrel Ealum questioned whether the school system just rubber stamps free lunch applications.

The state's form requires three individuals to sign off on an application. The schools' applications just have one signature.

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