Retiring Superintendent gets almost a quarter million dollars for unused vacation?
Austin ISD Superintendent Pat Forgione got a big fat check this week – for unused vacation. He had a whopping 172 days accumulated; however, according to the Austin American-Statesman, Forgione’s contract, does not allow unused sick and personal days cannot be carried over and are not compensated.
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/education/entries/2009/06/30/superintendent_to_get_21527872.html
The school board should be recalled for this. This payment is totally irresponsible and outrageous. Question: if the contract said he could not carry forward unused time, but he obviously did - this doesn't appear to be a legal payment, does it? And he is going to be making his $8,433 a month in addition to his new job salary. Isn't that double-dipping? And people say we don't spend enough on education -- we spend too much on education overhead and not enough on teachers and classroom instruction. AISD school board members should be ashamed -- and this should serve as an example of what should NEVER be done. That money could hire five teachers!!! It could be used to help students. AISD School Board President Mark Williams, Vincent M. Torres, Lori Moya, Cheryl Bradley, Sam Guzman, Christine Brister, Robert Schneider, Annette LoVoi and Karen Dulaney Smith should explain this irresponsible act. Weren't they watching his leave time? Should he be paying for leave time not accumulated this year? Explain this to the taxpaying public, please! Here is the District’s website:
http://www.austinisd.org/inside/board/members.phtml/ You can email the school board members at: trustees@austinisd.org or call the District at 512- 414-1704.
-- Peggy Venable, pvenable@afptx.org
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How can anyone in the public education community honestly say we aren't spending enough money on education when we spend taxpayer dollars in this manner?
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