Showing posts with label double dippers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label double dippers. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Former Providence principal kept his 'previous' job helping run D.C. school. What we know

 The former principal of E-Cubed Academy in Providence was still working — virtually — as an assistant principal in Washington, D.C., for 17 weeks after starting the job in Rhode Island last year, according to a government ethics board complaint.

Michael Redmond was hired as principal of E-Cubed on Branch Avenue in July 2020, when the school and its students were preparing for a return to classroom learning for the first time since the COVID pandemic began the previous spring.

But while he was physically on the job in his new position in Providence, Redmond was Zooming in to work in Washington and collecting his salary as assistant principal of Kramer Middle School there, according to a complaint from the District of Columbia Board of Ethics and Government Accountability...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/complaint-former-providence-principal-kept-022530543.html

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/29/former-providence-principal-kept-previous-job-helping-run-school-d-c/8801408002/

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Collecting Pension and Back on MCPS Payroll

Goodwin takes part-time job at MCPS Department of Safety

After 14 years of serving as Whitman principal, Alan Goodwin took a part-time job this year at the MCPS Department of Safety and Security to improve school security for all county schools.
“While I enjoy retirement, this is just a part-time job so I can enjoy retirement while still staying involved in MCPS,” Goodwin said...

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Hogan Appointed State Board of Education Hires Controversial Former HoCo Superintendent

Renee Foose, who resigned in May as Howard County’s school superintendent after months of publicly feuding with members of a politically divided school board, was hired Tuesday by the Maryland State Department of Education...

...A power struggle between Foose and the school board erupted last spring after three new board members were elected on a platform opposing her. She was left her with a minority of the board’s support. Foose eventually sued the school board claiming, among other things, that they were trying to usurp her authority. Under a settlement reached with Howard County and signed May 2, Foose agreed to drop her lawsuit and both sides agreed to cease making disparaging comments about each other. The terms of the settlement were criticized by legislators and parents at the time as being excessive and a waste of taxpayer money. Her opponents had said she was dictatorial and ignored issues that were important to parents.
The hiring of Foose by the state education department angered state Del. Warren Miller, a Howard County Republican.
“She received well over a million dollars. Now we are rewarding her with a state job?” he said. “I think the biggest issue is that this is someone who sued the taxpayers of Howard County. We never found out in court what would have happened. ….I think this is a tremendous liability for the state taxpayers.”...