Miami Board Buys Out Leader's Contract
After Four Years at Helm, Crew Falls Out of Favor; Says He Has No Regrets
Four years after the Miami-Dade County, Fla., school board waged an intense campaign to woo and win a nationally renowned superintendent, Rudolph F. Crew, it has ousted him from his job on a wave of criticism about his management style and financial acumen.
In a meeting Sept. 10 , the school board of the nation’s fourth-largest district decided to buy out the remaining two years of Mr. Crew’s contract for $368,000 in salary and benefits.
The contract, which pays Mr. Crew $325,000 a year plus benefits, entitles the board to fire him for cause with no payout. But relations between him and the board had soured so profoundly that both sides agreed to negotiate a deal to avoid protracted wrangling over whether the district would be...
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