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So just who is Tiffany Hardrick? And why did she leave New Orleans? | Bob Braun's Ledger

So just who is Tiffany Hardrick? And why did she leave New Orleans? | Bob Braun's Ledger:



So just who is Tiffany Hardrick? And why did she leave New Orleans?

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Tiffany Hardrick
Tiffany Hardrick
Daryn Martin, the leader of the parent-teacher organization at Ivy Hill School, may go to jail because of a criminal complaint filed by Tiffany Hardrick, an assistant superintendent of schools in Newark who co-founded a New Orleans charter school.  So it’s a good time to ask just who this Dr. Hardrick is, why is she in Newark, and why she left New Orleans. The answer is–she is another one of Cami Anderson’s misguided appointments of an educator with a, well, unusual past.
Hardrick was a co-founder with Keith Sanders of the Miller-McCoy Academy in New Orleans, a charter school. She left the school “under a cloud” in July, 2012, after the trustees discovered they canceled a bus contract with an outside vendor and gave the business to a company owned by her brother, Bobby Hardrick.
A letter home to the school’s parents described how the busing crisis left students and parent in tough circumstances. Sound familiar?
For Newark’s Cami Anderson, the cloud apparently could not be seen because the state-appointed superintendent hired her within a few months to be a $175,000 assistant superintendent of schools–one of whose jobs, apparently, is to tear downnotices of PTO meetings legally posted by parent leaders.
I can understand Cami Anderson might not like to read the press clippings about herself and her friends. But due diligence certainly would have prompted her to read the minutes of the trustee board that employed Hardrick. This is how notice of the