Superintendent in Massachusetts placed on leave

Maynard (Mass.) School Superintendent Mark Masterson has been placed on paid administrative leave amid allegations that he withheld information in 2004 that a child had been molested. Masterson has headed the 1,300-student district since 2002. Masterson failed to tell School Committee members promptly and accurately about a 2004 telephone conversation in which a former high school student said he knew about a teacher who had abused a student in the 1970s.

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