The Cheltenham School District is proposing to pay more than $265,000, plus compensation for sick and vacation time, to former superintendent Brian Scriven, who resigned last month amid outcry over the district’s handling of alleged assaults in a football locker room.
Under a settlement agreement the Cheltenham school board is expected to vote on Tuesday night, Scriven would get $266,884.60 — a little less than the $270,000 annual salary the district had agreed to pay him under a five-year contract that took effect July 1.
He would also receive payment for “earned but unused vacation leave, sick leave and personal leave,” according to the agreement. A district spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday about the amount of that payment.
Scriven resigned Aug. 6, a week after Montgomery County prosecutors announced charges against four Cheltenham football coaches and six players in connection with two assaults the year before on a teammate in a high school locker room.
Prosecutors said the players had stomped on and poked a broomstick toward the buttocks of their 15-year-old teammate during the August and September 2025 assaults, while coaches later instructed the teen not to tell his parents what had happened.
But prosecutors also faulted the district, describing its investigation into the incidents — one of which was filmed and circulated in the school community — as flawed from the start. The district, which canceled last year’s football season in October, also came under fire from other parents with safety concerns, including at Cheltenham Elementary School, where parents said the district had failed to adequately respond to assaults by students.
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Scriven, a 1983 Cheltenham graduate, was tapped as Cheltenham’s superintendent in fall 2021 after working in Baltimore County Public Schools.
He had received a new five-year contract in December, and the school board had voiced support for his leadership in May.
In resigning last month, Scriven said the past year had “tested our community in ways none of us anticipated,” and that he had “come to believe that the district is best served by a fresh start under new leadership.”
The school board last month hired Chris McGinley, a veteran administrator and former Cheltenham superintendent, to serve as interim superintendent this year. It also commissioned an outside lawyer to review its policies and the grand jury’s findings.
The with Scriven specifies that the former superintendent would make himself available to consult with the district on legal matters, and would be paid if the time spent exceeds 40 hours. If Scriven is named as a defendant and provided legal representation by the district, however, he would not be compensated for time spent, the agreement says.
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This is a developing story and will be updated.