Questionable Hire Has Past Ties to LPSS
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.katc.com/news/questionable-hire-has-past-ties-to-lpss/"><img src="http://www.katc.com/images/thumbnails/D35EFF8F56F17FC3FFEA0B4B7D34EAEE_200_200.jpg" alt="Questionable Hire Has Past Ties to LPSS" border="0" align="left" vspace="4" hspace="8"/></a></div><p>KATC was the first to uncover, Thad Welch was on the payroll before officially being hired as the Superintendent's Special Assistant.</p><p>In a KATC investigation, we uncovered before Thad Welch got the job as Special Assistant to Superintendent Pat Cooper, without a high school diploma, he worked for the Lafayette Parish School Board as a consultant.</p><p>In January last year, Welch began working as a contract employee for LPSS at $320 per day plus $180 per diem for a total of $500 a day.
