Posted on 07/26/2015 8:45:47 AM PDT by george76
The principal of an innovative West Harlem public school killed herself the day after her students took the state Common Core exams — which were later tossed out because she cheated ...
Jeanene Worrell-Breeden, 49, of Teachers College Community School, jumped in front of a B train in the 135th Street station ...
She was pulled out from under the train and taken to Harlem Hospital, where she died eight days later. The city Medical Examiner’s Office ruled it a suicide.
The leap came at 9:20 a.m., less than 24 hours after her 47 third-graders wrapped up three days sweating over the high-stakes English exam — the first ever given at the fledgling school.
It was also the same day a whistleblower reported the cheating to DOE officials.
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Worrell-Breeden, who made $135,000 a year, was the founding principal of the school, which the DOE opened in 2011 ..
Worrell-Breeden got the job despite a scandal at her former school, PS 18 in The Bronx. In 2009, the special commissioner of investigation for city schools found she had clocked in for overtime pay while working out with a personal trainer three times a week in the school gym.
Her time card “disappeared” after investigators visited the school. The probe found she altered her time card and coerced subordinates to say she had offered them hundreds of OT hours first — as required — before taking them herself.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
True. That person will be scared... and the taxpayers ... and the children. And everyone who believes in 'merit' as opposed to 'favoritism'... no matter how well intentioned.
Worrell-Breeden got the job despite a scandal at her former school, PS 18 in The Bronx. In 2009, the special commissioner of investigation for city schools found she had clocked in for overtime pay while working out with a personal trainer three times a week in the school gym. Her time card "disappeared" after investigators visited the school. The probe found she altered her time card and coerced subordinates to say she had offered them hundreds of OT hours first -- as required -- before taking them herself.
“...she died eight days later.”
Couldn’t even do that right.
The government worker caste in the northeast has a strong sense of entitlement; teachers working 6 hours per day, 180 days per year, insist they should all earn high six figures - regardless of the impact on people earning five figures that have to pay them.
This is a fitting punishment for one of the “workfare” grifters...
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