{"id":103544,"date":"2026-01-17T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/103544\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:21:27","slug":"salmon-river-gets-new-school-superintendent-amid-probe-into-alleged-student-mistreatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/103544\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon River gets new school superintendent amid probe into alleged student mistreatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Terrance Dougherty\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WQW7TPM7QJD2XCX5LPPJUEXR4E.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" \/>Terrance Dougherty(Salmon River Central School District)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">FORT COVINGTON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; The Salmon River Central School District has a new acting superintendent as the investigation continues into the use of wooden boxes as student \u201ccalming stations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srk12.org\/new-acting-superintendent-named-at-salmon-river-csd\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.srk12.org\/new-acting-superintendent-named-at-salmon-river-csd\/\">board of education appointed Terrance Dougherty<\/a> to the position Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His appointment comes during a tumultuous time for the district, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2025\/12\/18\/salmon-river-educators-placed-leave-over-allegations-that-students-were-locked-box\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2025\/12\/18\/salmon-river-educators-placed-leave-over-allegations-that-students-were-locked-box\/\">rocked by allegations<\/a> from parents that special needs students were restrained and secluded in wooden boxes at school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The allegations, which circulated with photos on social media in December, were denied by then-Superintendent Stanley Harper. He said he knew about the boxes, but claimed they were never used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The school board assigned Harper to home duties and, shortly before Christmas, temporarily appointed Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES District Superintendent Dale Breault to serve as acting superintendent while officials looked for a full-time leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The board also launched an investigation into the allegations of student mistreatment and the conduct of school administrators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The board of education says Dougherty is a veteran school administrator who most recently served as interim superintendent at the Oxford Academy and Central School District and the Afton Central School District, both in Chenango County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terrance Dougherty(Salmon River Central School District) FORT COVINGTON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; The Salmon River Central School District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,38443,28402,47255,47256],"class_list":["post-103544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-salmon-river-central-school-district","tag-superintendent","tag-terrance-dougherty","tag-wooden-boxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}