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15
A follow-up to my previous post re: my school district may allow the superintendent to double-dip.
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Orange rehires superintendent
Orange school district Superintendent Daniel Lukich retired Thursday and was rehired Friday. The school board gave Lukich a three-year contract with a 3.3 percent raise effective July 1. That bumps his salary to $147,325 – a $4,700 raise. Lukich has been superintendent for the past 10 years. Lukich will collect both his pension and salary for his current job, which state law allows. Officials said Orange will save about $20,000 a year because, as a retiree, Lukich is not eligible for health benefits.
The Orange school board accomplished this possibility in a special session.
Here’s another take. Additionally, Lukich was a candidate for the Dublin schools superintendent position. Here’s what Dublin will pay its new super, former Chagrin Falls Superintendent David Axner. The $170,000 base salary is $23,000 above what Lukich is getting, and the rest, when added in, sounds like a lot more than what Lukich will get, but I don’t know any additional details about Lukich’s package. Note how that article indicates that Solon schools, ranked the #2 school system this year in the Cleveland mag suburbs ranking issue, pays as high or higher.
Glad to keep Lukich in Orange through 6/2010.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:36 pm June 15th, 2007 in Politics | 2 Comments
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15
I wrote about the original incidents regarding the student-generated play, Voices in Conflict, here.
Yesterday, the New York Times published this story about the high school students’ triumph in bringing their play about Iraq to the stage, and the public.
Despite stiff competition from the weekend’s parades, awards shows and the “Sopranos” finale, “Voices in Conflict” played to nearly full houses both nights. In the audience were friends, family, Wilton alumni and a few theater professionals. (Bob Stillman, a friend of one performer’s family, who came to the Vineyard show between his own performances in “Grey Gardens,” said he found the acting impressive, an opinion [actor Stanley] Tucci echoed.)
The students have done the show twice in Fairfield, though few of their schoolmates attended, they said. But at one show, a Reserve sergeant who had served in Iraq told them they had gotten the experience “200 percent right,” Ms. Dickinson said. And at a discussion after the Vineyard show, a man in the audience stood up.
“I’m a Vietnam vet,” he said. “When I got back after that war, I majored in theater. I don’t know what other people wore the uniform for this country for, but I wore it so you could do exactly what you’re doing.”
Nothing that isn’t trite left to say. Congrats to the students and the teachers. Keep an eye out for this: “As part of a PBS series with the documentarian Morgan Spurlock, the actor and director Stanley Tucci has been filming and interviewing [the students].”
Here’s an article from when the play first got its Off-Broadway gigs (who remembers why the name Martin Garbus sounds familiar?). And here’s a review of the performance done in CT.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:53 pm June 15th, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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15
A follow-up to my previous post re: my school district may allow the superintendent to double-dip.
PEPPER PIKE
Orange rehires superintendent
Orange school district Superintendent Daniel Lukich retired Thursday and was rehired Friday. The school board gave Lukich a three-year contract with a 3.3 percent raise effective July 1. That bumps his salary to $147,325 – a $4,700 raise. Lukich has been superintendent for the past 10 years. Lukich will collect both his pension and salary for his current job, which state law allows. Officials said Orange will save about $20,000 a year because, as a retiree, Lukich is not eligible for health benefits.
The Orange school board accomplished this possibility in a special session.
Here’s another take. Additionally, Lukich was a candidate for the Dublin schools superintendent position. Here’s what Dublin will pay its new super, former Chagrin Falls Superintendent David Axner. The $170,000 base salary is $23,000 above what Lukich is getting, and the rest, when added in, sounds like a lot more than what Lukich will get, but I don’t know any additional details about Lukich’s package. Note how that article indicates that Solon schools, ranked the #2 school system this year in the Cleveland mag suburbs ranking issue, pays as high or higher.
Glad to keep Lukich in Orange through 6/2010.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:36 pm June 15th, 2007 in Politics | 2 Comments
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Jun
15
I wrote about the original incidents regarding the student-generated play, Voices in Conflict, here.
Yesterday, the New York Times published this story about the high school students’ triumph in bringing their play about Iraq to the stage, and the public.
Despite stiff competition from the weekend’s parades, awards shows and the “Sopranos” finale, “Voices in Conflict” played to nearly full houses both nights. In the audience were friends, family, Wilton alumni and a few theater professionals. (Bob Stillman, a friend of one performer’s family, who came to the Vineyard show between his own performances in “Grey Gardens,” said he found the acting impressive, an opinion [actor Stanley] Tucci echoed.)
The students have done the show twice in Fairfield, though few of their schoolmates attended, they said. But at one show, a Reserve sergeant who had served in Iraq told them they had gotten the experience “200 percent right,” Ms. Dickinson said. And at a discussion after the Vineyard show, a man in the audience stood up.
“I’m a Vietnam vet,” he said. “When I got back after that war, I majored in theater. I don’t know what other people wore the uniform for this country for, but I wore it so you could do exactly what you’re doing.”
Nothing that isn’t trite left to say. Congrats to the students and the teachers. Keep an eye out for this: “As part of a PBS series with the documentarian Morgan Spurlock, the actor and director Stanley Tucci has been filming and interviewing [the students].”
Here’s an article from when the play first got its Off-Broadway gigs (who remembers why the name Martin Garbus sounds familiar?). And here’s a review of the performance done in CT.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:53 pm June 15th, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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15
Everything you need to know about Frankie Coleman
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Is in this post by Bonobo of Blue Bexley.
The only caveat: I haven’t been following the case with such acuity that I know for myself that Lt. Governor and Department of Development Director Lee Fisher is known to have known about Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman’s wife’s issues. I’m trusting Blue Bex to have vetted that fact. Fisher’s not knowing that info would add another dimension, though not change the perspective all that much.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:35 pm June 15th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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Jun
15
I wrote about the original incidents regarding the student-generated play, Voices in Conflict, here.
Yesterday, the New York Times published this story about the high school students’ triumph in bringing their play about Iraq to the stage, and the public.
Despite stiff competition from the weekend’s parades, awards shows and the “Sopranos” finale, “Voices in Conflict” played to nearly full houses both nights. In the audience were friends, family, Wilton alumni and a few theater professionals. (Bob Stillman, a friend of one performer’s family, who came to the Vineyard show between his own performances in “Grey Gardens,” said he found the acting impressive, an opinion [actor Stanley] Tucci echoed.)
The students have done the show twice in Fairfield, though few of their schoolmates attended, they said. But at one show, a Reserve sergeant who had served in Iraq told them they had gotten the experience “200 percent right,” Ms. Dickinson said. And at a discussion after the Vineyard show, a man in the audience stood up.
“I’m a Vietnam vet,” he said. “When I got back after that war, I majored in theater. I don’t know what other people wore the uniform for this country for, but I wore it so you could do exactly what you’re doing.”
Nothing that isn’t trite left to say. Congrats to the students and the teachers. Keep an eye out for this: “As part of a PBS series with the documentarian Morgan Spurlock, the actor and director Stanley Tucci has been filming and interviewing [the students].”
Here’s an article from when the play first got its Off-Broadway gigs (who remembers why the name Martin Garbus sounds familiar?). And here’s a review of the performance done in CT.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:53 pm June 15th, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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Jun
15
Everything you need to know about Frankie Coleman
Filed Under Politics | Comments Off
Is in this post by Bonobo of Blue Bexley.
The only caveat: I haven’t been following the case with such acuity that I know for myself that Lt. Governor and Department of Development Director Lee Fisher is known to have known about Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman’s wife’s issues. I’m trusting Blue Bex to have vetted that fact. Fisher’s not knowing that info would add another dimension, though not change the perspective all that much.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:35 pm June 15th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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Jun
15
Everything you need to know about Frankie Coleman
Filed Under Politics | Comments Off
Is in this post by Bonobo of Blue Bexley.
The only caveat: I haven’t been following the case with such acuity that I know for myself that Lt. Governor and Department of Development Director Lee Fisher is known to have known about Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman’s wife’s issues. I’m trusting Blue Bex to have vetted that fact. Fisher’s not knowing that info would add another dimension, though not change the perspective all that much.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:35 am June 15th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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