Niko Sila speaks with the media on October 30, 2025 after being told Green Bay Area Public School District administrators are recommending he be fired. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — The deadline for the Green Bay East High School football coach to resign has passed.
Thursday was the deadline for Niko Sila to decide to resign; or the district would recommend the termination of his employment to the board of education.
Sila was employed by the district in 2018 and is also the manager of engagement, attendance and advocacy.
He was placed on administrative leave on October 16 after the district outlined numerous allegations against him.
At a Tuesday night gathering of Sila’s supporters, a representative of Sila, Stephanie Ortiz, said the district was considering the following allegations against him:
- Divisive or unprofessional comments about staff and/or administration
- Intimidation of colleagues
- Intimidation or manipulation of students and lack of professional boundaries
- Use of profanity with students
- Inappropriate physical consequences during football practices
- Lack of training and supervision of monitors and providing incorrect attendance processes and procedures to monitors
- Giving rides to students in his personal vehicle
- Violation of the district’s no-contact order by communicating with students while on administrative leave
- Inappropriately updating and altering student attendance in Infinite Campus
Ortiz said the allegations are either “hearsay” or being taken out of context; and that he refuses to resign and will keep fighting for his position.
On Thursday night, the Green Bay Area Public School District released a statement saying:
The Green Bay Area Public School District can confirm that Mr. Niko Sila communicated in writing to the District that he was rejecting the resignation offer that was presented. The District has no further information to share at this time.
Ortiz said that he remains on paid administrative leave and that the district will soon let them know what’s next with the school board.
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