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Sky high salaries for superintendents?

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POSTED: Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 8:25am

UPDATED: Monday, December 5, 2011 - 6:16pm

New survey shows disparity between teachers and superintendents pay

Tyler — Are public school superintendent's in Texas justified earning almost three times as much as teachers?

Latest TASB annual survey shows the average superintendent salary at $123,000 a year. The average teacher salary: $42K.

East Texans talk-back on the disparity with our news parther: KTBB and host Garth Maier.
 

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Howard December 5, 2011
at 3:30pm

All school systems, especially Lindale ISD, are greatly overloaded with Administrators who make salaries 3 times as large as the average taxpayer in the Districts. The LISD Superintendent not only makes over $150,000 per year, he has an Assistant and a Deputy who make about $90,000 each.

tonks December 1, 2011
at 4:04pm

No. This disparity is not warranted. The most important job in education is the classroom teacher, and compensation should reflect that value. There are too many positions in administration which receive a much higher level of compensation than is necessary. I'd tie the super's salary to the lowest -paid classroom reacher, and say they could not make more than twice the lowest classroom teacher in the district. Further, superintendents should be required to teach a class every so often.

Tom Stuart December 1, 2011
at 9:42am

Yes. They have to answer to more people, the entire community and to persons who don't have chldren in public school. Also, they have no job security.

Rattatooey December 2, 2011
at 2:04pm

Tom, the lack of job security arises from their own performances. After a short time, the faculty and the public realise that new Superintendents have nothing to offer, apart from being an empty figurehead. Look what happened in Troup. A new Administration Building for the Superintendent was built at huge cost. Also. $800,000 + was spent on putting AstroTurf on the playing field. Which one of these projects advances student achievement in "ANY" way. So what is accomplished?

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