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Report eyes Bellport HS athlete's grades

Joe Cipp Jr., the high school football coach

Photo credit: David L. Pokress, 2006 | Joe Cipp Jr., the high school football coach who became the South Country Central School District's superintendent in 2010.

A Bellport athlete's grades were improperly changed to help get him an athletic scholarship and his district's superintendent "must have been involved or must have known what was going on," according to an investigator's preliminary report.

South Country Central School District called for the independent investigation in December after fired Bellport High School principal Kevin O'Connell said...

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