In yesterday's Post Gazette,
PA Cyber Charter School fires most top managers:
PA Cyber Charter School fires most top managers:
"The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School board has axed its director, finance director, personnel director, compliance officer and a longtime lawyer, in a near-sweep of its top management that education experts on Tuesday characterized as highly unusual and potentially damaging in the long term."There was no mention of former Mt. Lebanon School Board President, Joe Rodella this time. My August 12 post, Former School Board president's PA Cyber connections prompts federal inquiry, the Post Gazette stated that the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and a federal grand jury were probing some people who have been associated with PA Cyber, including Mr. Rodella.
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Perhaps they can all request Advisory Opinions from the PA Ethics Commission based solely on information they provide about themselves and get a clean bill of health that no one can challenge after 30 days of the written opinion date. Of course, they would not have to release the opinion within that time frame.
It seemed to work several years ago for a former SB official.
For those of you as confused as I was when reading 10:02 AM's comment, I offer this explanation as was shared with me. I had not been sucked into the Mt. Lebanon "Psychodrama" at that time.
"The poster is referrring to the ethics investigation of Joe Rodella and his involvement in the parents athletic council, and his coaching job with the hockey team-- combined with his push to get school funds to his team.
There was an investigation and he alone provided info, and then he released it too late for the public to provide comments back to the ethics commission."
Some history on this: Lebo: Multiple Hats Criticized
Elaine
Yeah Elaine, ol' Joe reportedly was also a Vice President of the Parents Athletic Council (PAC) at the time. A member of the public had a PAC letter soliciting public donations that year showing such in a listing of its officers and directors. One of the Ethics Commissions criteria for a conflict of interest determination was whether he was an officer of the organization and therefore was of a position of influence in funding. Since Joe had somehow not revealed that he was an officer in his ethics opinion request, the Commission gave him a clean bill of health.
Joe later explained that the PAC stationery was outdated, and that he had resigned beforehand. He was reportedly unable or unwilling to provide proof of that with PAC meeting minutes confirming his resignation.
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