Scranton Schools Director Paige Gebhart Cognetti indicated that her colleagues may have violated the Sunshine Act by secretly hiring attorney Jarrett Ferentino to investigate superintendent Dr. Alexis Kirijan's claims that she had been sexually harassed by an unnamed school director....
Dr. Alexis Kirijan has complained about sexual harassment and gender discrimination by an unnamed member of the Scranton School Board....
Scranton School District Superintendent Alexis Kirijan made the news this week and she was not happy. The Scranton Times-Tribune reports that in June Kirijan's attorney notified the School Board that his client had been sexually harassed by an unnamed school director. The superintendent is not happy about this public disclosure and wants to know who leaked the information. We usually take a tongue in cheek approach to the foibles of our friends at SSD, but in the age of #MeToo, there's no place for the kind of behavior Kirijan alleges. Our hope is someone gets to the bottom of it. Was President Donald...
Carol Oleski, longtime community volunteer and current member of the Scranton School Board died Tuesday after a long battle with lung cancer. ...
Hundreds of teachers rallied outside of the Scranton School District's administration building Friday, demanding that the district make concessions is ongoing contract negotiations. ...
Monday was the Case of Alexis and the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day. Poor Alexis Kirijan. Even though School Board President Barbara Dixon called a last minute cancellation of the regular meeting (no, BL, we mean Bob Lesh's basement did not flood again), that did not stop Directors Paul Duffy, Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, Mark McAndrew, and Tom Schuster from continuing with their Labor Relations Committee meeting. The four want Jeff Brazil's head on a platter. Who can blame them? Word around town is Brazil was asleep at the wheel while Daniel Sansky funnelled fraudulent bills to Gregg Sunday. Kirijan took the brunt...
Some Scranton School Board Directors frequently clashed with Dr. Alexis Kirijan, schools superintendent, over the next steps that should be taken in the wake of former fleet manager Daniel Sansky's felony indictment. ...
Tonight's Scranton School Board meeting has been cancelled....
The Scranton Federation of Teachers and the Scranton School District remain deadlocked when it comes to the adoption of a new teacher contract. The teachers union, led by Rosemary Boland, released a scathing statement today on Facebook that accuses district leaders of graft, mismanagement, and adopting policies that hurt students....
The Scranton School District is embroiled in a web of scandal and dysfunction rarely seen in the annals of Lackawanna County politics. The arrest of one time fleet manager Daniel Sansky on charges that he defrauded taxpayers by overbilling for work performed at Danny's Auto Body comes as little surprise to those familiar with the findings of Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale in the 2017 performance audit report of district operations. A teacher phoned yesterday to remind us that this is all the tip of the iceberg. Bob Lesh disputes that he is the "BL" listed in the indictment. It's a hard case to make...