So why did Miami-Dade superintendent Rudy Crew turn down a principal's offer to work for a $1 salary? As paraphrased by the Miami Herald, he said it was because "a position budgeted at $1 a year plus benefits could not be filled if [the principal] left before year's end." To which the principal, replied, "New life has been thrust into this old body. With one more year, I could take these kids to the next level."
It sounds like new life needs to be thrust into the Miami-Dade school district, which has a habit of tangling itself in bureaucratic knots.
