Cheryl Watson-Harris was superintendent of DeKalb County, Georgia faculties for 2 years.
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Ex-Chancellor Richard Carranza’s second-in-command — who ditched NYC faculties on the top of the pandemic — has been fired from her prime educrat job in Georgia.
Cheryl Watson-Harris, who served two years as Carranza’s first deputy chancellor, was abruptly axed final week after almost two years as superintendent of DeKalb County faculties, a 93,000-student district in suburban Atlanta.
The DeKalb County college board’s relationship with Watson-Harris had “been deteriorating for a while,” it stated in a press launch.
“The board misplaced confidence in Mrs. Watson-Harris’s capacity to supply the management the district wants within the face of great challenges.”
The discord got here to a boiling level after college students at Druid Hills HS launched a scathing video exhibiting intensive water harm, mould, electrical hazards and sewage overflow in a picnic space for seniors. Regardless of the crumbling situations, the varsity was faraway from a precedence record for repairs, though the district had entry to roughly $400 million in federal funds for repairs.
Watson-Harris stated she was “blindsided” by her firing.
“I used to be unaware that my contract or employment can be mentioned throughout yesterday’s assembly,” she stated after the board voted 4-3 on Wednesday to chop ties. However a state senator claimed she had been instructed her three-year contract wouldn't be renewed.
Watson-Harris, who made $241,000 in NYC, left in June 2020, as the town Division of Training struggled with plans to reopen buildings after the COVID-19 shutdown.
She boasted in her software, “Underneath the management of my workforce the town has seen report beneficial properties in proficiency charges in each ELA and math.” Former DOE take a look at analyst Fred Smith stated the town had not made such beneficial properties, and blasted her declare as “ridiculous.”
“We tried to warn them,” stated Karen Ames, a former Bronx superintendent who was pushed apart when Carranza and Watson-Harris took over. Ames known as the firing of her former boss “karma.”
In what critics known as hypocrisy, Watson-Harris enrolled her personal youngsters in elite and fewer various NYC faculties, regardless of Carranza’s stance that selectivity resulted in segregation.
Watson-Harris made $325,000 yearly in DeKalb, with a $1,500 expense account, $600-a-month automobile allowance, and a $12,000 a yr supplemental retirement contribution.
District spokesman Donald Porter stated her contract was set to run by June 2023. He wouldn't disclose what “severance funds” the board stated she would obtain.
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