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The Charleston County, S.C., superintendent will be looking for new employment, after being accused by his district of spending $790,000 without school board approval and of perjury on a separate matter.

The county school board voted 7-2 last week not to renew Superintendent Chip Zullinger's contract, up in June 2000. The action followed a 32-page district report charging that he had violated hiring policies, broken state law with his teacher-evaluation policies, and paid travel expenses for people not employed by the district. The board also accused him of lying under oath in a deposition regarding a 1996 incident in which a teacher scribbled, "Where are my glasses!" on...