Alonso’s Benefits: Former Baltimore City Schools CEO Andres Alonso has been paid nearly $150-thousand for unused vacation time and sick leave. One analyst tells the Baltimore Sun that Alonso’s benefits package “should have been scrutinized” when it was originally approved. Dr. Alonso resigned from the helm of the city school system in May after six years on the job; in doing so, he did not give the 90 days’ notice that his contract required… but the city school board waived that requirement without penalty. Recently, the Superintendent of the Anne Arundel County School System also resigned without giving the required 3-month notice; but Anne Arundel reaped $20-thousand in penalty fees for that. http://news.wypr.org/post/camden-line-delays-alonso-s-benefits-and-misdemeanor-convicts-removed-voter-rollsDamn! How many paras can $150,000 buy?
"When you get to more than $100,000 in accumulated leave, that's very surprising," said Audrey Spalding, director of education policy at the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy and a researcher of superintendent contracts. "And if the school board is not willing to give a breakdown to substantiate it, it raises a lot of questions."
Spalding said it would be helpful to see specifics of how such leave is accrued.
"If he did earn it, it was a lucrative contract that the school board handed out to the point of being irresponsible," Spalding said.
Hey, now, It helps to have a Broadie Hook-up:
- Alonso's super'ed one of the poorest and lowest-performing disticts in the State of Maryland, yet the Baltimore Sun confirmed that his personal driver was paid more than the mayor or governor when over-time was factored in...
- This infamous contract included a car and $750/monthly stipend for auto costs.
- Alonso also received an annual payment of 40 % of his salary - $104,000 each of the last two years termed a "supplemental income program."
- Alsonso also received $29,000 per year under his first contract, performance bonus, which he earned in each of his first three years. The administrators union actually asked him to give those bonuses back after Alonso alleged that his school had during the time he was awarded the bonus for the rising test scores!
- And wait for it... the holy cow of all holy cows... The Baltimore school system will pay Alonso's health insurance benefits until it is confirmed that he receives them at his next job.
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