YIKES, WE'RE PAYING HIM FOR TWO MORE YEARS?!

For me, today’s story in the Times Herald-Record https://bit.ly/3mHQJ0z about the Newbugh School District’s settlement with our disgraced Superintendent raised eight questions and a comment. 1. What is Padilla's reason for resigning, if "there was no wrongdoing"? 2. Why did the Board give him a raise of $30K/year and extend his contract through 2026 when a grand jury found he was overseeing a district with "systemic failures"? 3. Why are we paying him $279K/year for two more years of non-work? Common sense says it must be because he, in exchange, is doing something for us. If that "something" is turning in his resignation, well ... see Question #1. 4. What was "misinformed" in our local newspapers' stories on his disappearance since last August? I thought our reporters’ only problem was that Padilla and the Board members all clammed up and wouldn’t talk to them. 5. Is the district still using the APEX system to raise the grades of athletes? If not, what has replaced it, and how is it working? 6. Is Padilla still treasurer of the Council of School Superintendents? If so, they should be ashamed. 7. About the two investigators we taxpayers hired, who the agreement says reached "inconsistent conclusions." Did each one decide there was not enough evidence to find him guilty or not-guilty, or did one find him guilty and the other, not-guilty? 8. Why were two investigators hired at all, instead of the School Board just accepting the recommendations of the first one? And finally, a comment about the group Padilla founded, the NYS Assn. of Latino Administrators and Superintendents. Did anyone else notice that its acronym is " NYS, ALAS?"