NEW YORK (AP) - New York City’s Department of Education says it’ll fire a principal who often was absent or late to work but continued to collect a full salary.
A report by Richard Condon, the special commissioner of investigation, on Tuesday recommended that Marcella Sills be fired and banned from working for the DOE.
Sills was principal at P.S. 106 elementary school in Far Rockaway, Queens.
The investigation found she regularly arrived at the school between 9 a.m. and noon. The report says Sills maintained she arrived between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. daily.
It also found that she would ask a custodian to let her in through a side door.
Sills couldn’t be reached for comment.
The investigation began after the New York Post reported on the story in January.
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