Patrick: Early Ed Head Did Nothing Illegal in Taking Time to Train for Other Job
Sherri Killins stepped down Monday as the head of the Department of Early Education and Care after reports she spent significant time in a superintendent training program.
Gov. Deval Patrick said Thursday that nothing was illegal about Early Education and Care Commissioner Sherri Killins continuing to collect her $200,000 annual salary while she took time to train to be a superintendent and lived in Connecticut.
Killins stepped down from the post earlier this week amid questions about her participation in a training program in Ware, which required a significant time investment and had some wondering whether it was cutting into the time she spent on the job.
Patrick said Thursday that Killins did the training during her vacation time and other time off, and that there is no rule against living in another state while serving as a top Massachusetts official, the Associated Press reported. The administration has conducted a review of Killins' case but it has not yet been made public.
Meanwhile, she will continue to get her salary for the next two months while she works as an outside consultant from her New Haven, Conn., home, the Boston Herald reported.
Cool Fusion
6:24 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
Personally, I think a nudge of that red "We Are Here" arrow a tad to the right under the 'O' of "Orwell' would be in order...
Maria Rigazio-Rea
7:04 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
I don't know, should she have been reimbursed for her mileage for travel to train for another job? I am thinking not...
Bob Ercolini
8:37 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
While taxpayers were obviously funding this no show position for some time, the real scam will be the over $1,200,000 equivalent signing bonus that the next loyal member of the Democratic Party will be getting, in additional state pension pay of 80 to 100k a year, when they take this position for three years. While Massachusetts' citizens don't deserve this, they just don't understand that the people in government and power, without political opposition and sometimes even with with it, will always put themselves and their cronies ahead of the population they were hired to serve. In this case, it was money allocated to help kids that was stolen, abet legally, as Patrick says.
Bryan McGonigle2
9:13 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
"Fresh" evidence that the fish rots from the head first. How else should this be interpreted?
Maria Rigazio-Rea
9:40 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
Amen Bob! we populous here in Massachusetts have been asleep at the wheel for far too long. And the government has long had no balance...Cronyism is the norm here.