BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Baltimore City student test scores have dropped to some of the lowest in the country. Meanwhile, the CEO of the school system continues to see her earnings hit new highs.
Project Baltimore dug into Dr. Sonja Santelises’s employment contract and found taxpayers are paying her over $100,000 more than they may have realized.
Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises’s employment contract is 19 pages. The contract lays out her responsibilities, expectations, and compensation. When it took effect in 2020, the contract became possibly the most lucrative contract ever signed by one of Maryland’s 24 public school superintendents. But it’s not until you read all 19 pages, that you begin to understand how lucrative it really is.
“What you dug out is significant taxpayer cost that has never had sunshine on it,” said Adam Andrzejewski, the founder of Openthebooks.com
Andrzejewski has spent much of his career reading government employment contracts and is stunned by what Project Baltimore found in this one.
“I think taxpayers will rightfully be upset about what you’ve uncovered when you follow the money,” Andrzejewski told Project Baltimore.
WAY OVER-PAID !!!! PERIOD
Not the President of the United STATES !!!! DUGH