Buy out her contract? How about filing criminal charges against her and outright firing her?

Like rats off a sinking ship.

Dr. Goodloe-Johnson, depending on what story you hear, is either on vacation or tending an ailing mother. Come back and face the music early? Nah.

Members of the Board are facing their biggest crisis? Come back early from vacation? Nah.

Pass the buck? Not my fault, not my job. It even looks like Goodloe-Johnson has zero oversight on the construction of the district budget.

I hope Gary Locke fires Fred Stephens who completely allowed Silas Potter free rein.

I hope the Board fires Maria Goodloe-Johnson and Don Kennedy, the COO.

And I hope the voters fire all four of the Board members in the fall who are up for reelction (should they run).

Many of us sent up flares on this back in July. Over and over and yet the Board didn't want to listen. And Silas Potter flew the coop.

It's a mess but please, don't give up on Seattle school children. The doors will open again on Monday and truly, there are good things happening in our schools (including a science experiment from Ballard High School that just went up on space shuttle Discovery).

Maria Goodloe-Johnson should be tarred and feathered and run out of town. She is a liar and a bully. She is no role model for our children. Please send her packing before she does even more damage. Look how Charleston is still trying to recover from her reign there.

Maybe the teachers should send her a pink slip like she sent them a letter last year trying to unilaterally change the terms of the union contract.

I was done with her after she wrecked my kid's school. I kept having flashbacks to the Bush regime: no matter what haughty, self-serving, stupid-ass move she made, it seemed nothing could touch her. And this $1.8m is just the beginning of the tax money she's squandered.
Fire her ass. If she gets a payout, I'm going to be pissed.

It's sad that this tomfoolery is what will take out M G-J, rather than terrible curriculum choices, rigid standardization of schools, or sundry other bad moves that directly damaged the education of our children. Oh, well, whatever it takes. Hope this clears out some school board deadwood, too. District oversight, my ass. More like Overlooking.

@#2 Yes, this has been publicly discussed for some time. Last fall this specific bit of mis-management was on the literature distributed by the anti-school-levy organization of teachers and parents, along with other examples of waste and mis-spending. You know, the levy the Stranger endorsed.

At the time, the School Board came out and said, "Failed another state audit? Give us more money. No worries, we promise to start paying attention to what's happening. For reals this time." Folks, start asking the incumbents just what the heck they are doing to supervise. And ask opponents what specifically they will do to supervise their new superintendent.