{"id":1758,"date":"2018-05-26T08:44:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2018-05-26T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T12:44:22","slug":"burlington-superintendent-given-permission-to-work-remotely-from-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/26\/burlington-superintendent-given-permission-to-work-remotely-from-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington Superintendent Given Permission to Work Remotely From Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BURLINGTON &#8211; The Burlington city council <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2018\/05\/15\/burlington-school-superintendent-gets-residency-waiver\/\">approved a controversial request this week<\/a> that will allow the school superintendent Yaw Obeng to work remotely from Arizona, flying in to Vermont one day a month for face-to-face meetings with staff. This arrangement is unusual, as Burlington law requires the superintendent to live within the city limits. The decision set off a flurry of protests online as residents asked the city council for an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see a problem,&#8221; said council president Kurt Wright. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t live in Burlington anyway, so this really isn&#8217;t much of a change. I think he has demonstrated that he can effectively run the schools without meeting with parents or teachers very often, and I don&#8217;t think most people will notice much of a difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obeng originally chose Hawaii as his preferred choice of residence, but some council members became skittish about the location after seeing a video of lava consuming a car on the internet. They asked Obeng to compromise and choose another place to live, and Arizona emerged as the compromise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arizona is going to be great for my family,&#8221; Obeng said. &#8220;They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/national-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consistently have the highest rated high schools in the country<\/a>, and I want my children to have a good education. I think most parents in the community will understand this, as education is important to all of us. And I will be available from Scottsdale to chat via either Skype of Google Hangout every Thursday from 4:15-5:00 PM Arizona time. I think we&#8217;re going to get a lot accomplished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obeng cited, in addition to better educational opportunities for his family, the fact that he could not afford a home in Burlington, despite making three times the median income.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credits\">Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2018\/05\/15\/burlington-school-superintendent-gets-residency-waiver\/\" target=\"_blank\">VTDigger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>BURLINGTON &#8211; The Burlington city council approved a controversial request this week that will allow the school superintendent Yaw Obeng to work remotely from Arizona, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/26\/burlington-superintendent-given-permission-to-work-remotely-from-arizona\/\" title=\"Burlington Superintendent Given Permission to Work Remotely From Arizona\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[11],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burlington","tag-burlington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TWFI-2018_05_26.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-sm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}