BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The vice chairman of the Louisiana Board of Ethics said he resigned from the board for personal reasons, not because of any conflict of interest.
Scott Schneider told The Advocate that he had missed many of the board meetings because of work and family obligations.
Schneider said suggestions were "absurd" that he resigned because of conflicts surrounding his job as legal counsel at Tulane University, the institution's ties to Teach for America and a case before the ethics board.
The case involved Kira Orange Jones, a member of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and her work with Teach for America, which has BESE-approved contracts. The ethics board found no problem with the arrangement.
"I'm obviously involved with Tulane, but I have nothing to do with Teach for America," Schneider said. "I don't know if Tulane has a relationship with Teach for America."
Ethics Board Administrator Kathleen Allen said no conflict would have existed even if there was a Tulane relationship because Schneider would have had "no substantial economic interest in that matter that was pending before us."
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Ethics board member explains his resignation
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