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  • Author(s): Gewertz, Catherine
  • Source:
    Education Week. 3/8/2006, Vol. 25 Issue 26, p5-5. 1/4p. 1 Color Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      SCHOOL accounting; VALLAS, Paul G.; BUTKOVITZ, Alan; PAYROLLS; SCHOOL administration; SCHOOL districts
    • Subject Terms:
      PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA
    • Abstract:
      The article reports on a conflict between Paul G. Vallas, the chief executive officer of the Philadelphia schools, and City Controller Alan Butkovitz over school district's payroll in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conflict was resolved when the commission decided that the controller's office could continue a decades-old practice of having about 10 of its employees on the school district's payroll. Butkovitz claimed that Vallas was waging a grudge match because one of his proposed replacements had clashed with Vallas in a previous job. City employees face more restrictions on their political activities than do school district employees.