Milton School District to release records on Garrow's leave
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MILTON — The Milton School District plans to release records that will shed more light on Superintendent Mike Garrow's leave and an agreement that allows him to be paid while not working for the rest of the school year.
School board President Rob Roy said Monday the district has mailed copies of the records to Garrow, along with an open records request The Gazette filed last week. The Gazette is seeking records detailing the leave agreement and an apparent complaint and board investigation dealing with Garrow's conduct.
Under state law, Garrow has five days to add information to the records. Roy estimated the records will be available early next week.
Roy's announcement comes after a strongly worded editorial in Sunday's Gazette that urged the district to comply with the newspaper's latest open records request or face a lawsuit.
This is the Gazette's second open records request on the matter. The district initially released some details about Garrow's leave, but it withheld details of the agreement and reasons for the leave.
At the time, Roy said those details were withheld under a state statute designed to protect the privacy of Garrow and his family.
Garrow was put on leave Oct. 12 pending an investigation of an Oct. 9 complaint about his conduct, officials said. The board and Garrow in November struck an agreement that allows Garrow to remain on fully paid leave through June 30.
The district last week appointed longtime district elementary school Principal Theresa Rusch as interim superintendent for the rest of the school year.
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Dec 5, 2012 at 9:31 a.m.
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Abenghazibob, no more mush for you! ( nice name change ).
Dec 5, 2012 at 8:25 a.m.
Dec 5, 2012 at 7:03 a.m.
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BenghaziBob - do you reside in Milton School District? If so, a portion of your property taxes is being spent for this guy to sit on his backside at several grand a month, and you should care (and if you rent, some of that is to cover your landlord's property taxes). If you do not reside in Milton School District, then you ARE probably someone who doesn't care, which then prompts me to ask: Why are you bothering to post if you don't care?
Dec 5, 2012 at 1:29 a.m.
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Hopefuly, most of this speculation should come to an end next week with the release of the details. We should NOT assume anything at this point - janesvillean should not assume that there is no "...proven case of malfeasance..." and BenghaziBob should not assume that "...the kids are ok and the district is doing well...".
Dec 5, 2012 at 12:39 a.m.
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WisconsinResident, sometimes you just have to wait and see. There aren't many options here. Without a proven case of malfeasance cancelling Garrow's contract is premature. If he does need to be separated, or separates himself, then the search for a replacement is on the district whether it wanted it or not. But right now these are not options on the table.
Dec 4, 2012 at 5:16 p.m.
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Well as a taxpayer in Milton this is what I am worried about now, We will have to at some point compensate the new intern till the end of the school year to do the job that Mr. Garrow was hired by the district to do. Problem two is this is only a short term solution to this situation till and are still having to deal with what to do next year: A do we retain Mr Garrow or B go with someone else. Now if the decision is B then the district is going to have to do another search for Mr. Garrow's replacement. So this process will be far from done. The other thing on my mind is what exactly are the facts all we have is here say till the evidence is made public all we have is speculation and rumours. So the problem will still remain what to do next?
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