Retiring Superintendent gets almost a quarter million dollars
Outgoing Austin ISD Superintendent Pat Forgione got a big fat check this week – for doing nothing. He’d accumulated a whopping 172 vacation days!
According to the Austin American-Statesman, Forgione’s contract does not allow unused sick days and personal days to be carried over, and they are not compensated. So why the pay-olla??? Read it all here.
AISD has a $22 million budget shortfall, but is sending the former superintendent off with almost a quarter million dollars? The school board should be recalled for this totally irresponsible and outrageous action!
Question: If the contract said Forgione could not carry over unused time, how could he accumulate 172 vacation days, and then is this payout legal?
Forgione is going to be making $8,000-plus a month from this payout in addition to his new job salary. Isn’t that double-dipping?
People say we don’t spend enough on education – in reality, we spend too much on education overhead and not enough on teachers and classroom instruction.
AISD school board members should be ashamed. That money could hire five teachers!!! It could be used to help students in the classroom. AISD School Board President Mark Williams and board members Vincent M. Torres, Lori Moya, Cheryl Bradley, Sam Guzman, Christine Brister, Robert Schneider, Annette LoVoi and Karen Dulaney Smith should explain this irresponsible act. Weren’t they watching his leave time? Should he be paying for leave time not accumulated this year? Explain this to the taxpaying public, please!
Here is the Austin school district’s website: http://www.austinisd.org/inside/board/members.phtml/
You can email the school board members at trustees@austinisd.org or call the District at 512- 414-1704. We demand answers!
