So he under expends the funds and you fire him! That makes a whole lot of sense!

Unbelievable that you would fire someone for having a surplus. My house has gone down in price over 35%, and Real Estate Tax has only gone down only 3 1/2% ($56.00). Look at your Real Property Tax Bill and see how much is going to the Hazelwood Schools. Sounds to me this school district is run my the Teachers Union. What kind of people do we have on the school board for giving a guy grief over having a surplus. We spend more money on education, and scores go down. Maybe this is due to h quality of teachers, and you can't get rid of the poor ones due to the Union.

I believe the person in charge of delivering a system that would rise childrens scores was fired because he failed. In order to get better students, you need better teachers. You get better teachers by offering better pay.

If you do a good job cutting the budget and raising revenue, then you have a surplus for offering higher pay. You reward those teachers who did the best work and you seek replacements for those who did not do their best.

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This still strikes me as rather curious and raises many more questions than the media seems to be sharing. Why wouldn't the School Board hold the Treasurer more directly accountable for this mistake? Why isnt the School Board conducting more frequent and regular reviews of the budget so that these kinds of errors are caught more proactively? Seems like the School Board might just have scape-goated Price to avoid any scrutiny on them as the Board as apparently asleep at the wheel regarding the budget. Also, is it really surprising that teachers may feel threatened by a Superintendent who, in all likelihood, was holding them more accountable and striving to raise the bar on teacher performance? Isnt this exactly what we want a Superintendent to do? Something still sounds very fishy here to me.

I have to agree with Sonny. Steve Price did not come with the best of reputations, and this is not the first time he was fired before completing a contract and got a pay out to leave. Taken from StLToday:
"He had previously served as the superintendent for seven years in Middletown City Schools, a district of about 7,000 students in Ohio. Price was criticized here over student discipline problems and the cost and effectiveness of a program on race and equity.
He left Middletown after a separation agreement in which he resigned two years before his contract expired. The district agreed to pay him $10,417 a month for 12 months."

It still keeps taking me back to the School Board on this one. Why would the Board be so ignorant to hire someone who is this obviously unqualified, if that was the case? Why was the Board not requiring a more regular review of the budget? Why would the Board not hold the Treasurer accountable as well? It does not make sense that they would fire the Superintendent but keep the very same guy who made this budget error to begin with. It just sounds rather fishy to me.

Good points. Makes me think that the budget was not the real reason.