She obviously wasn't prudent in how she spent the district's money, but it also doesn't sound like any rules were broken. And, if she paid for her daughter to accompany her, unless that's against the district's rules, there's nothing wrong with that either. For most business trips, you pay out of pocket for family to attend, and you spend personal time with them after the work day. The district can fix this by placing budgetary restrictions and setting stricter guidelines for executive travel. Listen, Japan does out-perform us in K-12 education. Maybe she picked up something of value. Lord knows we need it...
I personally don't see why we would send a staff member $7,000 trip to Japan. I mean really what was the conference about seeing as our education system is very different than other countries and the way we operate. As for the daughter, if she was on the trip and went with her mom and did stuff while her mom was at the conference and it wasn't charged to taxpayers, I don't personally care about that. I had my superintendent take his family when they went to Hawaii for our conference and it was paid for by him. It just happened to be they stayed an extra few days and made it a family trip and the kids went into the beach while he was at a conference
Her daughter going on the trip isn't a big deal if it was paid for with personal money. The issue is the (lack of) value of the conference to the school district in the first place.
Same School district who didn’t have transportation for students.
Why are they going to japan for education conference absolutely no reason
They need to go to jail and pay back that money
Will there be some kind of public report that outlines a type of education reform for local, state and national policies for the system ?
She is in denial of what SLPS students need, stay in StL and do your job.
SHE NEEDS TO GO....PERIOD
Stop the corruption
She obviously wasn't prudent in how she spent the district's money, but it also doesn't sound like any rules were broken. And, if she paid for her daughter to accompany her, unless that's against the district's rules, there's nothing wrong with that either. For most business trips, you pay out of pocket for family to attend, and you spend personal time with them after the work day. The district can fix this by placing budgetary restrictions and setting stricter guidelines for executive travel. Listen, Japan does out-perform us in K-12 education. Maybe she picked up something of value. Lord knows we need it...
I personally don't see why we would send a staff member $7,000 trip to Japan. I mean really what was the conference about seeing as our education system is very different than other countries and the way we operate. As for the daughter, if she was on the trip and went with her mom and did stuff while her mom was at the conference and it wasn't charged to taxpayers, I don't personally care about that. I had my superintendent take his family when they went to Hawaii for our conference and it was paid for by him. It just happened to be they stayed an extra few days and made it a family trip and the kids went into the beach while he was at a conference
Her daughter going on the trip isn't a big deal if it was paid for with personal money. The issue is the (lack of) value of the conference to the school district in the first place.
She needs to go.
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