The Charleston County School District counts 858 students as not having the necessary documentation to show that they live in the district.
That's enough to fill an entire school.
Why isn't that the headline instead of the audit's not finding more than 15 out-of-county students at the magnet high schools?
Bizarre.
Monday, February 13, 2012
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If that many students turn out to be from out of the county, enough to fill an entire school, maybe we can send them back. That might save us another $35 million if we can stop construction on another unnecessary school project being promoted by Bill Lewis.
BTW, the superintendent pulled a fast one by adding another 2 years to his contract without bothering to let anyone know until it was announced in executive session. He gets additional benefits added to his $164,000 a year salary. As the 2nd highest paid district administrator, he gets a raise when for the 2nd time in 3 years while teachers didn't. The superintendent said he deserved to have the contract extended "so he can help provide his professional experience involving the seismic schools". The superintendent skipped right over the fact that his "professional experience" doesn't include a professional engineer's license or the ability to treat the public with respect. How about his threatening manner with the Sullivan's Island officials? This was a stealth maneuver to extend his contract. It was dishonest and it reflects poorly on those who are responsible for doing it in an underhanded way. Bill Lewis is just the kind of person who would be promoted exactly this way. It's all under the table.
And they said Monday night's school board meeting was to be a quick one with "nothing important" going on except the community meeting that followed. Why wasn’t the contract for Bill Lewis properly listed on the public agenda? It looks like it was deliberately mislabeled in order to deceive. It stinks. It also sullies the integrity of everyone connected with this kind of underhanded dealing. Doing it this way was to avoid putting a senior administrator under fire by doing it in the shadows and behind closed doors. All of this should have been in public. He wasn't exactly competing against other candidates. The board chairman didn’t even have the backbone to even mention the name of this administrator after the deal was already done. This isn’t the same thing as hiring a teacher or even a principal. Senior department heads do not receive the same kind of consideration as a mere mid-level employee who may be entitled to confidentiality. This is a department head who is a member of the district’s top leadership team, in the 2nd, or at least 3rd, position from the top. When you are that high up protective covers such as “confidentiality” and “personnel matters” don’t apply. Why give him the cover? Unless, Dr. McGinley did it this way to cover something up. I doubt if most of the board members who voted to go with this understand it either.
Why did the contract not make the news? This is the first place anyone has seen anything on the second highest paid district person. With all the budget issues and cuts in personnel this should have been in the open not behind closed doors. Some more of the districts transparency at work.
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