Apr 17, 2008 6:07 pm US/Eastern
'Sweet Deal' Has Gone Sour For Miami Dade Schools
CBS4 I-Team Investigation Into 'Double Dipping'
24 of 27 School Administrators Will be Fired
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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Miami Dade School Superintendant Rudy Crew said 24 of 27 school administrators who were 'double dipping' would be let go by summer.
CBS
A 'sweet deal' has gone sour for nearly two dozen Miami Dade school administrators caught 'double dipping'.
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CBS4 I-Team review of records by
Tiffani Helberg found that the school district had rehired retired administrators, who had received their pension, at a higher salary than they were originally paid.
On Wednesday, Miami Dade School's Superintendant Rudy Crew announced that 24 of the 27 of the 'double dipping' administrators would be terminated by summer. Crew said he planned to retain the three because they served as high school principals which were extremely difficult to recruit.
Teachers, school board members and legislators were outraged when they learned that the district had hired retired administrators to fill open positions.
"I see a lot of cronyism in here, friends of friends," said school board member Ana Rivas Logan.
Many were particularly upset because the district had spent $1.2-million to train management hopefuls and had nearly 300 qualified individuals waiting in the wings to accept a promotion to either an assistant principal or principal position.
During Wednesday night's school board meeting when Crew announced his proposals to cut administrators from his stand and move others around, some board members wanted to know whether retired administrators would be kept on past their retirement.
While Crew never responded to the question directly, his staff said retired administrators who had been re-hired by the district would be informed that their services were no longer required and that their contracts were not going to be renewed.
"I wish it didn't have to be this way," said Logan.
Logan and board member Dr. Martin Karp asked Crew to consider allowing retired/rehired administrators to be allowed to stay on with the district if they agreed to work at a starting salary. Crew said that would not be an option except for the three high school administrators he chose to retain.
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