In some as yet unrecognizable world, someone is going to pay me $900,000 NOT to go to work.
That is the position former Philadelphia schools superintendent Arlene Ackerman finds herself in this morning.
The embattled boss it out after months of wrangling. But not without some lovely parting gifts.
A little less than $1 million to be exact. City leaders actually went hat in hand to a lot of business and other city power brokers and took up something of a collection so that taxpayers would not be entirely on the hook for the buyout.
Ackerman was due to make $348,000 this year. That’s about twice what Mayor Michael Nutter makes.
There’s something just not right about that.
Then again, there’s something not quite right about paying a CEO that kind of money when the school district is looking at a $664 million budget gap.
Ackerman had been taking heat for what many perceived as her autocratic rule, along with the district’s budget woes and her reaction to what appeared to be a longstanding problem of abuse of Asian students at South Philly High School.
Ackerman’s only comment, issued in a written statement: She was “truly grateful for having had the opportunity and honor to serve the children and parents of Philadelphia.”
I would be too if someone was going to offer me $900,000 not to do it anymore.
That is the position former Philadelphia schools superintendent Arlene Ackerman finds herself in this morning.
The embattled boss it out after months of wrangling. But not without some lovely parting gifts.
A little less than $1 million to be exact. City leaders actually went hat in hand to a lot of business and other city power brokers and took up something of a collection so that taxpayers would not be entirely on the hook for the buyout.
Ackerman was due to make $348,000 this year. That’s about twice what Mayor Michael Nutter makes.
There’s something just not right about that.
Then again, there’s something not quite right about paying a CEO that kind of money when the school district is looking at a $664 million budget gap.
Ackerman had been taking heat for what many perceived as her autocratic rule, along with the district’s budget woes and her reaction to what appeared to be a longstanding problem of abuse of Asian students at South Philly High School.
Ackerman’s only comment, issued in a written statement: She was “truly grateful for having had the opportunity and honor to serve the children and parents of Philadelphia.”
I would be too if someone was going to offer me $900,000 not to do it anymore.
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