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New school superintendent gets $750,000 contract
(Published September 20, 2004)

Clifford B. Janey was officially hired Sept. 15 as the new superintendent of D.C. Public Schools at a salary of $250,000 a year.

The three-year contract approved unanimously by the D.C. Board of Education pays Janey $75,000 a year more than his predecessor, Paul L. Vance, and makes the new chief of the 64,000-student school system one of the city's highest paid public employees.

Janey, who led the Rochester City School District in upstate New York from 1995-2002, will be eligible for an annual performance bonus of up to $50,000 if he meets performance goals specified in his contract.

"It was clear from the contract negotiation process that both the board and Dr. Janey were primarily focused on forging a cooperative working partnership that provided for measurable accountability," school board President Peggy Cooper Cafritz said in a written statement issued by the board after the vote.

School board Vice President Mirian Saez said the board expects Janey to be "focused on one objective -- enhancing student achievement."

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