Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS : EDUCATION : Trustees Fire School Superintendent in Orange
The Orange Unified School District Board of Trustees fired Supt. Kenneth D. Brummel and named John Ikerd acting superintendent.
Board president Robert Elliott said the seven-member board had met behind closed doors Monday and, on a 5-2 vote, approved an agreement with Brummel that prematurely ends his three-year contract.
At the school board meeting after the firing was announced, nothing was said about it. Brummel and district officials had agreed that neither would speak critically of the other.
The agreement put Brummel on vacation the rest of this month and then on paid leave of absence until next June 30, when his three-year contract was to expire. His annual salary is $76,000.
Ikerd, the acting superintendent, has been the district’s personnel administrator since 1985 and a district employee for 22 years. Brummel has been under fire from some parents and teachers because of budget-cutting actions he initiated shortly after he took the job July 1, 1984.
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