Piotrowski declined an interview request from the Dayton Daily News.
Piotrowski will continued to receive her pay and benefits during the leave of absence. The agreement also dictates that board will pay her up to $9,000 for documented moving expenses incurred on or before July 31, 2015.
Under Piotrowski’s employment contract, she started working for the school district effective August 2010 and the contract ends in July 2013. She annually earns $125,000.
Her personnel file included two $2,500 supplemental contracts, for one time payments, for duties related to being a district “transformation team member”.
A review of her personnel file included evaluations for Nov. 28, 2011 and March 11, 2013 where she received scores, from the board, that ranged between satisfactory and superior. There was no evaluation for 2012 in the file.
Ted Holop, the Xenia High School Principal who has served as Piotrowski’s backup in the past, will be the acting superintendent effective Jan. 4 until the school board names a interim superintendent, according to a statement released by the board.
“My time in the Xenia Community Schools has been a joy and a pleasure,” Piotrowski said in a written statement posted on the school district’s website.
In her written statement, Piotrowski highlighted several accomplishments the district made during her tenure including stronger finances, completion of a multi-million dollar project and increased student scores.
Piotrowski, a 60-year-old Xenia resident, was hired by the school board in 2010 after she finished a five year stint as the Millcreek-West Unity superintendent in northwest Ohio. Her employment with the school district became controversial in February 2012 when a citizen group, Voices for Xenia Community Schools, gathered more than 250 signatures on a petition to remove her from her position citing a “lack of confidence and failure or refusal to perform her duties.” The group said the main reason behind the petition was a poor communication between school officials and parents on various issues from district finances to hearing concerns.
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