Winston Brooks $1/2M golden parachute.

During their private little confab to "evaluate" APS Superintendent Winston Brooks, the Board of Education decided to extend his contract. It is the second extension in a year; the first one was granted before he had even served one full year.

His contract has been extended until June 2013 "to provide continuity", link. Every year they will extend his contract another year so that he always has two years "in the bank".

When, if, a decision is made to hire a different superintendent, Brooks will still have his two years in the bank.

Taxpayers will have to buy out the remaining two years; another half a million down the drain.





Just one more little tidbit not being shared with voters before the upcoming Mill Levy and Bond Issue elections, neither by the leadership of the APS, nor by the Journal, our "newspaper of record".

Or have I misunderstood something?




photo Mark Bralley