I’d urge you to do some research on her and the wonderful things she has done in TN for education, especially literary.

Anonymous wrote:Also this:

“In the settlement, which was signed Feb. 28 and obtained by The Washington Post, the state agreed to pay Balow $266,213 in salary payments over the next year. In exchange, Balow agreed not to file legal action against the state.”

Oh sorry, I should rephrase. I’ll try again:
Why is there a settlement forcing taxpayers to still pay $300,000 to the outgoing state superintendent?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are taxpayers going to still pay $300,000 to the outgoing state superintendent?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/22/youngkin-superintendent-appointement-coons/

Maybe you were unable to read this part of your link?

“said she planned to continue to work with Youngkin’s administration as a consultant.”

Consultants usually get paid.

Take off your red colored glasses. She is getting paid her superintendent salary, not a new consultant fee. That’s why it was a settlement not a new agreement. This is super shady.

+1 What did the state do wrong that they have to pay her salary and keep her on as a consultant even though they fired her? Sheesh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are taxpayers going to still pay $300,000 to the outgoing state superintendent?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/22/youngkin-superintendent-appointement-coons/

Maybe you were unable to read this part of your link?

“said she planned to continue to work with Youngkin’s administration as a consultant.”

Consultants usually get paid.

Take off your red colored glasses. She is getting paid her superintendent salary, not a new consultant fee. That’s why it was a settlement not a new agreement. This is super shady.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine hiring an education official from Tennessee (after the mysterious resignation of the former one). This guy is so incompetent.

Imagine being so myopic and close-minded that you think a state full of fellow Americans has nothing to offer another state.

+1
The liberals on this thread (and so many others) are illustrating exactly what kind of people they are.

the right wing nutjobs in Texas want to secede from the US. How is that better than criticizing the lowest common denominator of states..data doesn't lie.

Every MAGA lunatic talks crap about CA, DC, MA, NY, IL but they are the states keeping things going.

Is this satire?

+1

Red states are takers.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone put faith in a school official from Tennessee? One of the worst in the country.

Thanks for the opinion of the "we're smarter because we're not from the south" crowd.

Puh-lease!

Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky are always ranked lowest in education. The larger metropolitian cities within those states do okay when compared to the rest of the state, but get outside of those Blue cities and the rest of the state is full of uneducated bumpkins.

The only thing that has saved Virginia from the same fate of these states was the Blue populous of Northern Virginia. Unfortunately, LCPS and the CRT wingnuts fcked the state this last election cycle. Enough Dems jumped ship to protect their kids from "boys in dresses" when in actuality, there are more trans kids in VA public schools than parents realize. They have been going to school with your kids since K. They have sleepovers with your kids and play on the same sports teams. They are 100% passing & presenting trans kids and you have NO idea.

I know this for a fact because my niece is one of them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is trying to turn Virginia into a backwards hick state.

Alternative view: the schools need help.

Helping public schools is not part of that party’s orthodoxy.

+1

Drive them into to ground to privatize.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is trying to turn Virginia into a backwards hick state.

Alternative view: the schools need help.

Helping public schools is not part of that party’s orthodoxy.

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is trying to turn Virginia into a backwards hick state.

Alternative view: the schools need help.

Anonymous wrote:Also this:

“In the settlement, which was signed Feb. 28 and obtained by The Washington Post, the state agreed to pay Balow $266,213 in salary payments over the next year. In exchange, Balow agreed not to file legal action against the state.”

Oof. Didn’t they have cause to fire her over the budget screw up? It has to be an at-will position, what grounds did she have to sue? That’s…something.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine hiring an education official from Tennessee (after the mysterious resignation of the former one). This guy is so incompetent.

Imagine being so myopic and close-minded that you think a state full of fellow Americans has nothing to offer another state.

+1
The liberals on this thread (and so many others) are illustrating exactly what kind of people they are.

the right wing nutjobs in Texas want to secede from the US. How is that better than criticizing the lowest common denominator of states..data doesn't lie.

Every MAGA lunatic talks crap about CA, DC, MA, NY, IL but they are the states keeping things going.

Is this satire?

Also this:

“In the settlement, which was signed Feb. 28 and obtained by The Washington Post, the state agreed to pay Balow $266,213 in salary payments over the next year. In exchange, Balow agreed not to file legal action against the state.”

Anonymous wrote:Why are taxpayers going to still pay $300,000 to the outgoing state superintendent?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/22/youngkin-superintendent-appointement-coons/

Maybe you were unable to read this part of your link?

“said she planned to continue to work with Youngkin’s administration as a consultant.”

Consultants usually get paid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guess no one from a decent state wanted to work with MAGA so he had to scrape the bottom of the barrel.

What is a "decent state" in your bigoted opinion?

Non-MAGA.

We don’t need anti-education, anti-science, anti-American trash anywhere near our kids/educational system.

What is "non-MAGA?"
You know that there are Democrats residing in Republican run states and Republicans residing in Democrat run states?
And, who is anti-education, anti-science, and anti-American here? Please expound on your stereotypical and bigoted views.

MAGA states = states that have enough idiots to elect MAGA leaders
Non-MAGA states = states with fewer idiots

VA already has enough MAGA trash. We don’t need more anti-education, anti-science, anti-American people influencing our educational system.

DP. You’re not exactly making the case for more people of your intellect. JFC.

Now we find out that not only did Youngkin hire someone from TN to supervise our schools, he is going to keep paying the former superintendent Balow who abruptly resigned! She is going to get her $266,213 in salary and more for health care and unused leave! What misfeasance did Youngkin do that he is wasting taxpayer money this way?