KANSAS CITY, KAN. ? Some parents in the Piper school district are seeking to remove three school board members from office after they failed to resolve a plagiarism dispute.

The parents applied for a petition Tuesday to recall Chris McCord, the board’s president, James Swanson and Greg Netzer, said Leroy Stevens, the recall effort’s leader.

“All of those members should have known, or should have made decisions with the majority of the school system in mind, not just 28 students,” Stevens said.

The district has been in turmoil since December when the board reversed a Piper High School science teacher’s decision to give 28 students zeros on a project. Christine Pelton had suspected plagiarism after discovering that many papers contained identical material.

But after hearing complaints from students’ parents, the board decided the students should get partial credit.

Pelton resigned in protest, the school’s principal said he will resign at the end of the year, and all seven board members face a open meetings complaint filed by the Wyandotte County district attorney.