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Salary cover is blown
School superintendents hide behind their base pay while they reap benefits that taxpayers don't see
Published on: 05/17/06
Should metro-area school superintendents earn more than the governor?
More to the point, if they do earn more, shouldn't taxpayers at least be aware of it?
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Hillsboro schools awarding custodial contract to SBM
Thursday, January 26, 2006
SOPHIA TAREEN
HILLSBORO -- The Hillsboro School District plans to outsource most of its custodial work to SBM Site Services Inc., a California-based company that also contracts with Portland State University and Intel.
The school board gave approval Tuesday evening to start contract negotiations with the company's Hillsboro corporate office. The district decided earlier this month to outsource.
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A lesson in reality
Ed Shamy
Woe unto the public-school math teachers in South Burlington.
They have to explain the logic of the School Board's deal with Gail Durckel, who resigned Feb. 5 but remains on the payroll.
"Teacher, I like Math Counts after school, but if there's no bus to take me home, I'll have to give it up. Why doesn't the School Board want to pay for the bus?"
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The $366 billion outrage
All across America, state and city workers are retiring early with unthinkably rich pay packages. Guess who's paying for it? You are.
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Officials try to reform complicated state- funded pension system
Perhaps the best word to describe the myriad of state-funded pension systems in Illinois is "complicated."
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Top-paid school staffer earns $375,000
The highest-paid public school employee in the state last year was the No. 2 person -- the man in charge of finance -- at a one-school district in north suburban Lincolnshire.
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An in-depth look at this one superintendent that received a full year
pay after resigning, plus $90,000 in unused vacation plus full health benefits
for him and his dependents until he was age 70 -- $440,000+ upon resigning!
And that doesn't include any pension calculations!
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Thousands of dollars in federal funds intended to assist poor D.C. schoolchildren appear to have been spent instead by school administrators on retreats and unapproved travel.
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Today about 5,000 Michigan educators, parents and school administrators are expected to rally at the state Capitol to urge lawmakers to support Senate Bill 246 and House Bill 4582. These bills would legislate an annual state budget increase for primary, secondary and higher education of either 5 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.
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Parents wanted to plant a native habitat in the schoolyard and volunteer to take kids out in small groups for botany excursions. the garden was in full view of two clasrooms and a glass paned hallway. the principal was a control freak, the garden had not been her idea, so she sabotaged it by finding a rule in a policy book saying "children had to be under direct supervision by a teacher at all times", even if the volunteers had background checks. so the teachers and parents launched a strategy to get around this which involved geting a bond to construct an outdoor classroom to form a "full view" by facing toward the last side of the nature garden not already adjoining the classrooms and hallway mentioned previously. a million dollars later, the kids can go on botany units with parent volunteers. |
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School district sees success in low algebra scores
By Nirvi Shah
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 25, 2005
To pass this year's final exam in algebra, Palm Beach
County students had to answer just 18 out of 50
questions correctly.
That would be a 36 percent on most tests - an F.
Typically, a 60 is the lowest passing grade on school
work. And to earn an A, students had to mark the right
answer for 39 of 50 questions - or 78 percent. That's
usually just a C.
As a result, 70 percent of eighth-graders who took it
passed the exam, which is designed by a national
company, according to recently compiled district
results.
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