By Tim White
Published: April 11, 2016, 5:30 pm | Updated: April 12, 2016, 11:00 am
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A Providence high school teacher who was terminated in 2006 was on the city’s payroll last year after a settlement agreement that impacts every school district in the state.
The case of Mount Pleasant High School math teacher Bernard McCrink spanned nearly nine years, culminating in a $71,944 payment in 2015.
The money was paid to McCrink after a Superior Court decision that ruled Providence had missed a March 1 deadline to notify him he was being terminated. The district made the move in September 2006, so the ruling meant the district had to pay him for the entire rest of that year.
Charles Ruggerio, a deputy city solicitor for Providence, said the March 1 deadline is an “impossible” one to satisfy...
In 2014, the General Assembly changed the law to allow the notification date for financial-related layoffs to be pushed back to June 1, but kept the just-cause March deadline intact.
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