2 fired in Muskegon Heights fund probe

MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. (WOOD) - Two administrative workers were let go by the Muskegon Heights Board of Education after an investigation looked into allegations of money misuse.

24 Hour News 8 has learned this just one day after state officials raided the school board offices.

Superintendent Dana Bryant said the workers were let go as a result of the school district's internal investigation, and not because of the attorney general's investigation.

Bryant did not say who they are, what positions they held, or even what department the two were in.

On Wednesday, he told 24 Hour News 8 the district is being investigated to determine if federal funds from the Title 1 program, which provides money to impoverished districts, were misused and if the district did not get the services it paid for with those funds.

The Muskegon Heights district gets about $2 million in Title 1 funds, which are used for, among other things, student lunches and teacher training. Title 1 funds account for about half of all the federal money the district receives each year.

The district began its own investigation in October, and said the dismissals were a result of that process. Bryant added, criminal charges may come out of the attorney general's investigation.