Schools' Personnel System in Chaos: Official Says Errors Could Cost Millions
Ferrechio, Susan, The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
More than $17 million in savings could be lost because the D.C. schools' personnel office has not completed the paperwork needed to fire more than 1,000 employees who were supposed to be off the payroll by Monday, according to the system's money manager.
Chief Financial Officer Abdusalam Omer wrote in a confidential memorandum obtained by The Washington Times that the entire system's 1997 spending plan set to start on Tuesday is in a state of chaos because of the personnel office's mismanagement.
D.C. public schools also failed to get 149 teachers and administrators on the payroll and have received time cards for 93 others who are entirely missing from personnel …
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Article title: Schools' Personnel System in Chaos: Official Says Errors Could Cost Millions.
Contributors: Ferrechio, Susan - Author.
Newspaper title: The Washington Times (Washington, DC).
Publication date: September 28, 1996.
Page number: 1.
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