Actually, I don’t think we were, but look at what the new Super was making in Kearney;
The KPS Board of Education on May 9 voted to freeze administrator salaries for fiscal 2011-2012. The breakdown of the superintendent’s compensation package: salary, $188,605; health insurance, $6,398; dues, $761; retirement, $15,772; unused vacation (varies per year), $3,500; and, personal use of car, $.51 per mile.
Notice that the process of hiring the NEW Super has been done under a cloak of secrecy. I heard that the media knew who the new Super was before the teachers were even given the news.
Make no mistake, the lack of transparency wasn’t to protect the identities of the candidates, it was there to protect the contract negotiations, and from the public knowing what we are going to pay our new super. It’s been two days since the announcement, and the ink on the contract is supposed to start drying this afternoon, yet we still have not been told what we are offering him?
Realize, he was making $188K for a district of 5K students. What do you think he will be asking for to run a district (he is NOT familiar with) that has almost 5x that many students? (Pam makes $194K currently)Â Get ready Sioux Falls property tax payers, this is going to hurt.
The SuperClub is a racket across the board.
The new guys total compensation package in Kearney was $225,000 a year. I suspect pams was a bit more. But according to stu, this new guy will start off making more than Pam. Don’t forget, Pam bails out at age 55 with a golden parachute which I’m sure will pay her more than 6 figures a year. So when she turns 75, she’ll have banked more than 2 million doing nothing more than exercising her horses and cashing in 6 figure pension checks. I guess pension checks are OK for the 1 percenters, as long as it’s only the 1 percenters cashing them in.
yeah, can’t let the regular folk collect a pension. lazy regular folks. they are the ruination of this country.
What Poly has to say is sad but true. Who suffers? School children do. They get an inferior education. Teacher salaries are not competitive such that good teachers leave the state. The tenure situation keeps the worst teachers while fresh talent works 2 jobs and eventually trades teaching for the private sector. With big salaries at the top, there’s a shortage of schools and education materials. Ms Homan never did anything but feed hay to horses. Good ridance. Now she laughs all the way to the bank for another 30 years and hires someone to feed horses for her. Just another priveleged upper class insider who took and didn’t help or return anything.
Amen to the first comment. Might be last in teacher salaries but no reason for that to keep administrators from feasting at the trough…
I just learned today that we are 26th in the nation for admin pay and 51st for teacher pay. Kind of looks like the school district in SF regards their managers with pay like the city of Sioux falls does with theirs. Lots of pay, lots of high percentage raises, and screw the foot soldiers.
I do want to look at this if elected. I don’t want us to lose ground on admin pay either, but there has to be a middle ground if the State is not going to help out. My hope is the admins are good with their pay so we can focus on teacher pay only. I did look at the budget and it looks like admins make approximately double that of what the average teacher pay is. So, please let me know where that falls in line with the private sector: ceo and general managers vs. their foot soldiers? Thank you!