There was a thread on this the day it broke- News Journal ran an article on it too.
The district seems to have a need to cut 8 teaching positions. Because he’s retire-rehire, the contract says he goes first. The way I understand it, he’s cheaper on the district as a teacher because they don’t pay benefits on someone who is retired. They just pay a salary and when you retire/rehire, you start back to like “step 5” on the scale?
I think they’re in deep trouble financially. The BOE and previous Super are to blame but that guy took off when he saw it coming and the BOE doesn’t answer to anyone (except the voters) but it doesn’t matter if you lose your seat- you’re not out anything really.