Retirement package for superintendent in New Jersey sparks criticism

Barbara Trzeszkowski, retiring as the superintendent at the Keansburg (N.J.) school district, is in line to receive a $740,876 severance package. The financial arrangement, negotiated with the school board in 2004, has brought a court challenge by the State Department of Education. After details of Trzeszkowski’s last contract were disclosed — it gave her six-hour workdays in the summer and a list of holidays that included the Tuesday after Easter, in addition to the retirement package — state leaders issued a call for a review of all superintendent contracts, which are negotiated at the local level.

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