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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never LOVED Coach Murphy, but I never took him for a falsifying records kinda guy. (That’s what it sounds like he was removed from MCPS for. Yes I’m aware we don’t know that with certainty.)[/quote]

It would be interesting to know the reasons for his career path since APS. He wasn't at West VA for very long, then he essentially was demoted to an Assistant rather than a Superintendent going to MontCo.....

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Seriously. I need a Serial style podcast on this[/quote]

My guess is Murphy got himself a huge VA pension, then a WV pension, and was working on a MD pension too.

Incredibly, Duran’s COO, Mayo, may have also been involved in the records falsification scandal in Baltimore County public schools that ended with the conviction of their former superintendent.

https://davidplymyer.com/2018/09/04/baltimore-county-schools-record-purge-more-significant-than-public-realizes/

This article is long, but it indicates Mayo omitted important information from financial disclosures that were later destroyed while he was head of HR.

I can’t find any whether that was itself investigated. But Mayo has a big part in APS these days. Hiring him doesn’t show great judgment by Duran. And what a ridiculous pattern for APS school leaders.[/quote]

It doesn't seem that this information was known prior to Duran's hiring him. I don't think Duran is doing a good job; but wouldn't conclude that this is evidence of poor judgement. There's much broader and visible evidence of that- like his promoting people who aren't qualified, hiring people who aren't qualified or aren't doing a good job, [b]creating an entire unnecessary layer of management (a cabinet)[/b] to distance himself from the community and the people doing the real work and decision-making, and his giving Syphax staff all those new holidays and days off that further limit their availability to front-line staff.[/quote]

To be fair, Duran didn’t *create* the cabinet. That was pure PKM. But Duran has kept it. Note: Coach Murphy also decided it was a very important to have himself a “chief of staff.”[/quote]

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