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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://moco360.media/2024/03/15/mcps-to-pay-mcknight-1-3-million-in-separation-agreement/

$1,183,250 in agreed-upon wages. The payment will be made in two equal lump sum payments with the final payment on or before Jan. 31, 2025;
$30,000 in attorney fees;
$20,225 in deferred compensation;
$18,525 from a tax-sheltered annual annuity plan; and
$48,000 paid to McKnight’s annual annuity account.[/quote]

Wow, just wow. [/quote]

I am not a lawyer, but it looks like most of this was part of her contract. You can fire someone, but you still have to pay them what the contract requires.

In addition, if I were a candidate considering being the next MCPS superintendent, I would also insist on a contract like that. Dr. McKnight is the third superintendent in a row to leave early, so job security isn't great.[/quote]

I’m a lawyer.  If there’s a material breach of the contract they shouldn’t have to pay it out.  There was a good case here for material breach.  I would have thought paying her one year was more than fair to get this done.  The amount they paid seems like more than 2 years 5 months and benefits.  And that also assumes no mitigation at all — so assumes she will just sit on her butt for the next two years which is not reasonable.  Presumably she could at least get a teaching job to cover the benefits and earn at least a portion of that.  [/quote]

+1 not a lawyer but this tracks with how incompetent the BOE seems when I watch their work sessions. They seem to completely lack the capability to be critical of MCPS staff. This structure of having a part time board with pittances for stipends and only a couple of staff independent of the superintendent for a multibillion dollar school system is not working. This contract is a perfect example of the total lack of oversight by the board.[/quote]

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