Remember, this is where Pelosi came of age

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/educati...1295.story

Quote:Andrés Alonso wasn't particularly interested in salary when he took over Baltimore schools two years ago. What he wanted was guaranteed authority, even insisting on a provision in his four-year contract that prohibits the school board from telling him what to do.

But Alonso's bullish style has a significant downside, city and state leaders say, and it emerged last week when he hired the freshly departed school board chairman - a man who helped hire him and give him the latitude he so desired - to an unadvertised, six-figure administrative job. His pick, real estate developer Brian D. Morris, is mired in financial troubles, including foreclosure and accusations of fraud,

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/educati...7270.story

Quote:Brian D. Morris, the charismatic and well-connected former Baltimore school board chairman who was to start a high-level school district job Monday morning, resigned Saturday amid questions about the hiring process and his history of financial troubles.

In statements issued Saturday, the school board and Morris said he had decided to withdraw his name for the $175,000-a-year post, which would have given him oversight of school system operations.

$175,000/year!? That's a friggin' lot of money. Then to a 38 year old, convicted of fraud while trying to run a business?

I did not read this....I don't need further validation of what I already know about the govt. indoctrination centers.