Boston School Superintendent Carol R. Johnson has known since November that one of her headmasters was part of a US Secret Service fraud investigation, but she took no action for three months because law enforcement officials swore her office to secrecy.
An official briefed on the investigation said that, initially, Johnson did not know whether Queon Jackson, acting headmaster of Madison Park Vocational Technical High School, was a victim or a perpetrator in the multistate credit fraud ring under investigation. The investigation is being conducted by the Boston Police Department and the Secret Service.
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Why paid leave? Surely criminal activity should justify unpaid leave?
No matter which way this case goes unfortunately Mr. Jackson's career as an educator is over.
Paid leave because he hasn't even been charged with a crime. At this point it sounds like he is being INVESTIGATED. That should not be enough to put someone on unpaid leave. I'm stuck on the $133,000 a year he earned. Doesn't that seem like a lot for an acting headmaster?
In 2011 he wasn't even an acting headmaster. He was, according to the article yesterday, an assistant principal, so, yes, that is a lot and that, too, should be investigated. The Superintendent's credibility hinges on whether her office was actually "sworn to secrecy" by law enforcement officials or whether this was another case of head-in-the-sand about someone she personally hand-picked for a leadership position.
Why did the Secret Service tell Johnson about this in the first place if if it was such a secret? That's an awful position to put her in.
Run te records--20% of BPS employees are convicted criminals--Wonder why there are problems @ BPS???