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Settlement that was agreed to by the former superintendent, to now try to come back and get more money, it's perplexing. >> reporter: perplexing. now dr. ackerman is coming back, she's fighting, saying, i'm quoting here, i am furious that the mayor claims to be outraged when he helped broker the buyout package and made it public to the media. as you know, the philadelphia media has never tried to be fair or balanced when reporting on my tenure as superintendent. acerman also claims she gave back one year of that buyout salary to the philadelphia school district to help with special needs kids,...

Philadelphia's school system is stirring controversy, as she defend apply fog jobless benefits, i.e. unemployment payments, after she gets a cool $900,000 in a contract buyout of philadelphia taxpayers' dough. she's coming out swinging in her defense. >> reporter: yeah, yeah, i mean, her name is arlene acerman, former philadelphia superintendent, she was very highly recruited in 2007, she signed a five-year deal with the philadelphia schools and this tenure has been bumpy to say the very least. this past summer, she and the district worked out a deal for her to leave her contract, two years ea...