The board of Seattle Public Schools released its own report today on management failures that led to a criminal investigation into how nearly $2 million was mispent, misused or perhaps stolen.

The report concluded that school Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson had limited knowledge of the district's Small Business Development Program, at the center of the investigation, but still should have endured that the program was properly supervised.

"This is an outrageous episode," school board president Steve Sundquist said. "It's one which is extraordinarily disappointing. What I believe is she should have been asking more questions of the people below her ... about whether sufficient corrective action was being taken to solve this problem."

The state Auditor's Office released a report this week that the district paid $1.5 million for services with a "questionable public purpose," and another $280,000 for services that were never given, seattlepi.com reported.

The program's manager, Silas Potter, resigned in June.

Sundquist acknowledged that the board is considering firing Goodloe-Johnson.

"Certainly all options are on the table," he said. "I wouldn't say more than that."

A longtime observer of district operations said she belives it's time for Goodloe-Johnson to go.

"I think they should let her go for just cause, and I belive this is just cause," said Melissa Westbrook of the Save Seattle Schools blog.

Not all parents are ready to judge the superintendent so harshly.

"She's not god; she can't see everything that's going on," Rana Coffee said.

Small business program manager Silas Potter has disappeared, but he left a video behind.

"I'm strictly east coast -- very direct, sometimes to the point that it's rude," Potter said in a YouTube video. "But I do care about, and I have a passion for, small business. I wake in the morning thinking it, I go to bed at night thinking it...."

KIRO 7 sought comment from Goodloe-Johnson, but staffers said she was out of town caring for a sick family member.

KIRO 7 attempted to contact Fred Stephens, Potter's manager at the time, but Stephens has thus far given no response.

U.S. Commerce Secretary and former Washington Governor Gary Locke, who hired Stephens at the U.S. Department of Commerce, said he had no comment on the matter.