PAINESVILLE, Ohio — Wednesday's Riverside Local Schools Board of Education meeting was a full house as people anxiously awaited to hear why the superintendent was up for termination.

Board President Scott Fishel and Vice President Dennis Kenney are leading the move to fire Superintendent Christopher Rateno.

Fishel and Keeney, who both lost their primary races, joined with board member Denise Brewster in voting on Nov. 26 and Dec. 4 to advance formal termination proceedings against Rateno.

"We now have an outgoing board that is, you know, in the last two months acting quite rapidly with some, I'm just going to say, at least in my opinion, questionable, you know, decisions," Riverside Local Schools Education Association President Matt Ozinga told me.

Ozinga said many in the community are

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