http://www.detnews.com/article/20110826/SCHOOLS/108260411/1409/metro/New-state-school-system-hires-chancellor-with-$175K-bonus
The new statewide school district designed to turn around failing schools named the superintendent of the Kansas City, Mo., schools as its inaugural chancellor Friday.
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As part of Covington's four-year contract, he will receive a $225,000 base salary and a $175,000 signing bonus, Roberts said. Does he get to keep that fat bonus when he breaks his contract in a couple of years, like he did here in Kansas City?
This editorial in the KC Star nicely expresses things nicely from my community's point of view:
http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/covingtons-shabby-exit-penalizes-our-kids/Then here's a beauty. He takes the wrecking ball to the best school the district had to offer, and leaves the next year:
http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/a-promising-magnet-school-gets-burned-by-right-sizing/Content?oid=2447688Whoever had the idea of a $175K signing bonus for this douchebag is a total fucking idiot.