MANSFIELD (UPDATE 11:40 a.m.) — Monica Hubbard, assistant principal at Sherman Elementary School, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation.
The decision was announced on Thursday morning by Mansfield City Schools Superintendent Brian Gaverick, He declined further comment on the matter.
Richland County Prosecutor Gary Bishop said Hubbard and her husband, Warren Hubbard, pleaded no contest Wednesday to the charges of illegal voting. She and her husband are facing 1.5 years maximum in prison and a $5,000 fine.
The fourth-degree felony can be erased from their records if they are accepted into the prosector’s office’s diversion program.
Bishop recommended the couple to the program because they have no prior records. He said if they are accepted and complete the program, they would have the charges erased from their records.
“It would then be up to the school or the school board if she could teach again,” Bishop said.
Hubbard, a former board member, was elected to a four-year term on the board in November 2013. She served as vice president after the resignation of Dina Davis in June 2017. She served in that capacity for 3.5 years of a four-year term before resigning in January.
She cited personal reasons for her departure.
On July 18, 2017, the Mansfield School Board approved Hubbard to work as the assistant principal of Sherman Elementary, upon recommendation by Garverick. She was approved by a 4-1 vote, with Chris Elswick the lone dissenter.
