Taxpayers in Prince George’s County, Maryland will pay their scandal-plagued school CEO Kevin Maxwell nearly $800,000 to go away, a massive price school board members justified as a necessity to move on.

An independent audit earlier this year found that as many as one in four Prince George’s County graduates may not have met the requirements to receive a diploma – the latest evidence supporting accusations of rampant grade manipulation under pressure from administrators.

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There was also the discovery of unauthorized raises for staff members, a hidden camera found in an administrative office, the loss of $6.5 million in federal funds over the documented mistreatment of students, and the high-profile case of a volunteer who sexually abused kids and created child porn at school.

And that was just in the last few years.

Maxwell, who collected a $300,000-per-year salary, is now “transitioning from the county” with three years left on his contract, and the six-figure buyout seals the deal, WTOP reports.

“The board settled the agreement based on legal counsel’s advice, saying that the settlement was in the public’s best interest and will save money by avoiding prolonged litigation,” the news site reported from a press release. “It will also allow them to refocus efforts on students …”

Parents and school employees screamed at board members during a raucous meeting Thursday as they voted 7-2 to approve the buyout.

“They sold our kids down the river,” board member Edward Burroughs III, who voted against the move, told The Washington Post. “Basically, they’re taking money directly from the classroom in our system and their giving it to Dr. Maxwell.”

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Board member David Murray didn’t like it either.

“I’m surprised because it’s close to a million dollars’ severance for one man not to do his job,” he told the Post. “But I’m also not surprised because the board for years has refused to hold Dr. Maxwell accountable.”

Doris Reed, executive director of the administrator’s union, said Maxwell deserves “absolutely nothing.”

“They’re letting this man blackmail this county,” she said. “He’s cost us so much money, and then you’re going to give him more money to go away? I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s an embarrassment to Prince George’s County.”

“Why would you buy someone out who said he was leaving?” teachers union president Theresa Mitchell Dudley questioned. “There’s no reason for them to give him a golden parachute as he’s going out the door.”

Perhaps it was simply about cooperation.

Maxwell announced in May that’s he was “transitioning from the county” but did not submit a letter of resignation or retirement for months, delaying the wildly unpopular buyout until after the June 26 primary. Maxwell was handpicked to lead the district in 2013 by Executive Rushern L. Baker III, who was running against former NAACP president Ben Jealous in the Democratic gubernatorial primary to challenge Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in November.

Baker lost the primary by more than 10 percent of the vote.