The former Boca Raton principal who lost his job after making controversial comments about the Holocaust has issued an apology.

A video from William Latson was released on Tuesday.

"When I wrote to a parent in 2018 that as an employee of Palm Beach County Schools, I could not state that the Holocaust was a historical fact, I was wrong. I apologize to the Palm Beach County community, the School Board, the school administration, the parents, students, teachers of Palm Beach County, the Jewish community, and everyone offended or hurt by my mistake."

The former Spanish River High School principal says this video apology was to replace a previously recorded one that wasn't played at last week's Palm Beach County School Board meeting. That's when the board met to reconsider an earlier vote to rehire Latson and listened to more than 1,200 voicemails of public comment, many from Holocaust survivors and their family members.

In Latson's video, the former principal says he is not a Holocaust-denier and has never been one.

The School Board reconvenes on Monday to make a final decision regarding Latson. Superintendent Donald Fennoy wanted to commission an independent investigation into what went wrong.

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