(The Center Square) – The leader of Tennessee’s Energy Efficient Schools Initiative has been charged with theft after allegedly receiving more than $11,000 in pay for time he did not work between 2021 and 2023. Paul Cross was indicted on a theft charge in Bedford County after the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office found there were at least 42 days when he reported working a full day and he was absent for personal reasons or in court for matters not related to work. “He told investigators that he knew what he did was wrong and would pay the EESI back any money he misappropriated,” the Comptrollers’…