Cynthia Vaillancourt has led the Howard County school board for two years, presiding over meetings every month, voting on a budget that exceeds $800 million, and recruiting a new superintendent to the district of 76 schools and 55,600 students.
But during her tenure as board chairwoman, Vaillancourt has been trying to convince a court that she suffers from a cognitive disability that causes her to confuse numbers, take wrong notes, and suffer muddied thinking.
Can she possibly run the board with such symptoms?
The question lies at the heart of her lawsuit to restore her private disability benefits of $82,000 a year.
Vaillancourt once worked as a project manager for a real estate company in Massachusetts. But while pregnant with her daughter in 1989, she suffered swelling in her brain that she says left her unable to continue that same work. She says she also has been impaired by an advanced case of Lyme Disease. She received disability payments for 26 years.
The 55-year-old from Ellicott City was elected to the Howard County Board of Education in 2010, and became chairwoman in 2016.
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2 comments:
That woman has been ripping off those insurance companys for years,she should be in jail.I'd bet anything she's a Democrat.
Just proves any brainless twit can run a county or city. Possibly even a country.
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