Democrats Get Secret Donors to Ease Out School Chief

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Philadelphia's Democratic machine is under fire after officials arranged for private, anonymous cash payments to buy out the contract of the unpopular schools superintendent in the nation's eighth-largest public school district.

Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, known to her detractors as "Queen Arlene," agreed Monday to leave her post less than three weeks before the start of the school year in exchange for a $905,000 buyout.

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Democrats Get Secret Donors to Ease Out School Chief

Wealthy private citizens kicked in $405,000 of the total to make Ms. Ackerman go away, but neither Mayor Michael A. Nutter nor Robert Archie Jr., chairman of the city-state panel that oversees the district...

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