NCS: Now, let's find out why we spent $79,061

Newark City Schools hired a PR person at the cost of $79,061 in salary and benefits. For that amount taxpayers have been assured they will receive more frequent newsletters mailed to them at a cost of $2,100-$2,200 per issue.

And what else are taxpayers going to receive for $79,061 each year?

Well, here it is in the Advocate report "New PR director's duties still being shaped." The lead sentence is: "Frances Russ’ first task as Newark City Schools’ new communications director will be to figure out what her position will entail."

In other words, NCS hasn't even a notion about what this person will do, so taxpayers will finance a study to learn why the school administration will annually spend 79,061 public dollars.

After all, it's only tax money. I love that King Richards announced in the Advocate report headlined "Richards: I'd leave if position isn't filled" that "this has never been about Keith Richards.”

In the same report, Richards said he'd quit if he doesn't get his way about filling the assistant superintendent position.

You'd think he have insulted taxpayers every way imaginable - but no. He had the gall to add that he didn't want his $201,433 job if NCS were required to operate as "the cheapest, least costly district."

With that he revealed, precisely, why he is not qualified to manage public money nor to keep his ego in check.