Meet Arlene Ackerman.
Here's her heart-warming, holiday story...
Former SF schools chief collects six-figure Philly buyout and then…
File this under the category of You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me.
Former San Francisco school Superintendent Arlene Ackerman has filed for unemployment in Philadelphia after receiving a nearly $1 million payout to leave the same job there, according to CBS Philly.
She would be eligible for the maximum unemployment benefit of $573 per week, if her claim is approved.
The Philadelphia school board paid Ackerman $905,000 to buyout the remaining three years of her five-year contract, with $405,000 coming from private donations and the rest from the district. The agreement included a clause that allowed the ousted school’s chief to file for unemployment.
To refresh everyone’s memory, in 2006, Ackerman was also shown the door in San Francisco, collecting $375,000 in severance pay to clear out of her office. She then briefly sued the district, claiming she was owed $172,000 more in unused benefits, a lawsuit she eventually dropped.
Link here.
But, but, but...it's for the KIDS!!!!
Florrie, this is enough to peg my BP 20 points. Grrr! ~x(
ReplyDeleteAckerman is a disgusting POS and a leech. I can't believe Philly was paying her that kind of scratch; it's ridiculous. And why would they give her such an absurd severance package if she's a failure and a crook? And WTF is up with the UE system, that this could happen? It's not just Pennsylvania taxpayers who should be roaring with rage; the feds are propping up UE in almost every state, which means ALL of us have been scammed by this slimeball. :-L
Also, the Philly schoolboard should be fired for hiring her miserable butt after SanFran kicked her to the curb. Plus they paid her like a frickin' rock star? WTF? x(
It's no wonder that our schools, and our economy, and our morals, are in the toilet. Swirling.
Swirling in the toilet, that's a good description, lady red.
ReplyDeleteI read several articles about this greedy incompetent and occasionally ran across the comment regarding her drawing unemployment "well, she did pay into it".
No, morons, she didn't. Unemployment insurance is paid by the employer, not the employee.
Who wants to bet she draws for the full 92 weeks (or whatever it's up to by now)? Aridog, I'm also betting she heads to Detroit next...or Chicago...
Some days I think we're drowning in our stupidity. This woman should be held up to liberal amounts of public scorn and derision with lots of boos and hisses (and a rotten tomato or two), then prosecuted and thrown in the slammer.
ReplyDeleteThat's not gonna happen, is it?
Well, she did pay into Unemployment, at least while she was in PA. I do, at any rate, although less than $1 per paycheck.
ReplyDeleteHowever that does not reduce the idiocy of paying her anything. Let's see, if she was so incompetent that private donors raised nearly one-half the amount needed to get rid of her, seems to that would constitute 'terminated for cause', which makes her ineligible.
DWT, I've never heard of employees paying into UE. Interesting. I wonder how many other states are set up like Pennsylvania?
ReplyDeletePeople like this in the education system are why I homeschool. Even though I'm kinda sick of my kids right now.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of it either but apparently in PA an employee pays .08% of their gross pay. In WA state, the employer pays.
ReplyDeleteOK, she is eligible for the state maximum of $573 a week after paying $5.38 a week.
Yeah, that sounds fair.
I take back my moron comment but not my opinion of this...person.
Snout, meet trough.
ReplyDeleteTrough, meet snout.
We Michiganders have a talent for rip offs too!! :D
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