The Post and Courier Pee Dee reports that Education Superintendent Ellen Weaver convinced legislators to cap superintendent buyouts to a single year’s salary.
Education Superintendent Ellen Weaver convinced legislators to cap superintendent buyouts to a single year’s salary.
South Carolina school boards have been wasting a tremendous amount of our tax dollars because it was easier to do that than to live with their mistakes — or even just be upfront about those mistakes.
Buying out superintendents’ contracts is similar to what colleges do with losing coaches, but it’s worse, because it’s deceptive and it doesn’t even pretend that it’s not using public money to make bad decisions go away.
The waste and deception come in two forms.
Several districts apparently had cause to fire superintendents without any payments but instead pretended they were parting amicably and sent them on along with a generous tax-funded going-away gift.