Teacher pay. Teacher Pay. We hear about it daily, yet very little push back on continued Superintendent increases. Where’s the outrage?  Back in May, I noted that Granville School Officials received  Raises with  no Board approval.

Quick reminder of the Granville findings:

Wilson found that Superintendent Tim Farley “is the second highest paid superintendent in the state with less than 25,000 students.” She also found that Associate Superintendent Allan Jordan received a “‘cost of living allowance’ and a large raise that was applied retroactively even though the fiscal year was over.” – WRAL 5/16/14

Consider the following related stories on Superintendent and administrative related pay:

In the state budget plan Gov. Pat McCrory put out Wednesday, state employees could get small raises next year — $800 for most state workers, and between about 2 percent and 7 percent for public school teachers.

The Guilford County Board of Education is trying to top that. School board members want raises of 82 percent — for themselves. – News and Record 6/7/14

 

DURHAM — After a six-month search for a new district leader, the Durham Public Schools Board of Education unanimously voted to hire Bert L’Homme as its new superintendent.

A former DPS administrator, L’Homme will succeed Eric Becoats Jr., who resigned last year after the board voted not to extend his contract when it expired in 2016. Becoats had been disciplined for credit card spending and using a school activity bus for personal use.

L’Homme’s contract, worth $225,000 a year, begins July 14 and runs through June 30, 2018. He was not at Thursday’s school board meeting. – Chapel Hill News 6/5/14

 

Russell Caps, president emeritus of the Wake County Taxpayers Association, fired an explosive charge at Monday afternoon’s Wake County Board of Commissioners budget public hearing accusing Superintendent Jim Merrill of asking for an exorbitant personal pay raise.

“One thing that does bother me tremendously is that the superintendent, who has been superintendent less than one year, has asked for himself a 13 percent increase in pay,” said Capps, a former legislator. “That’s appalling to me and I think the public needs to know it.” – News and Observer 6/2/14

*Merrill’s base salary is already $275,000

 

Henderson County School Board member Amy Lynn Holt on Monday night delivered a spirited defense of the $26,000 raise the board gave superintendent David Jones last month and Jones later declined to respond when the chairman of the county Republican Party asked him to turn down the raise and hire a teacher assistant instead. – Hendersonville Lightning 9/10/13