Thursday, December 02, 1999
Adamowski contract extension too early
BY DANA DiFILIPPO
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Board of Education members goofed when they agreed in September to add a year to Superintendent Steven Adamowski's contract.
State law forbids such extensions except during a 14-month window around the contract's end. In Mr. Adamowski's case, that means the board can extend the contract only between Jan. 1, 2000, and March 1, 2001. The law allows contract extensions of up to five years.
District counsel John Concannon discovered the gaffe as he prepared paperwork for Mr. Adamowski's extension.
“I would certainly hope that the board members would consider extending it again within the appropriate time frame; I just regret the embarrassment it caused the superintendent of having to go through that prematurely,” said board President Lynwood Battle, who will retire from the school board at the end of his term this month.
The board agreed in September to extend his contract by a year, mean ing his three-year contract would have expired July 31, 2002, instead of 2001. The superintendent started in August 1998 at a salary of $136,200.
The approval came despite objections from three board members who said extending the contract based on a one-year evaluation of Mr. Adamowski's performance violated the standards to which they hold schools. Under the district's accountability plan, schools' performance are rated on three years' worth of data.
The extension would give the struggling district the stability in leadership it needed to sustain reforms, board member Lynn Marmer said then.
The board gave Mr. Adamowski a “very satisfactory” rating in a September performance review that graded him on the district's performance goals, including students' proficiency test scores, student and teacher attendance, and dropout rates. Mr. Adamowski scored 75 of a possible 100 points.
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