Administrators enjoy bonuses as teachers mull strike.
Denver is spending more than $3.2 million for bonuses given to administrators at various levels, according to documents released by the district. That is an average $16,645 per administrator and a maximum of $37,000. Every administrator, 197 total, merited a bonus, with a minimum bump of $10,000 (among the administrators whose data was made public).
Those same administrators earn nearly $20 million in yearly salary for the district, an average wage of over $100,000 a year. Nearly half a million of the bonuses go to administrators with no school or student responsibilities.
The revelations come on the heels of an analysis showing DPS has one administrator for every seven and a half teachers, more than twice as many as comparable area districts.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
SICK! Wonder what Polis thinks about this one?
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Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
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This is what happens when corporate vultures run your schools. Your community starts paying for a lot more chiefs when what you need is a lot more teachers that will actually lower class sizes in the district and have direct impact on students. During my career I have attended many board of education meetings where parents have clamored for more teachers or assistants to help students. I never attended any meetings where parents demanded more administrators. BTW, one of the main characteristics of corporate run schools is a top heavy administration with high salaries.
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Seems like all the classic pejoratives that the reformers were dishing out apply here, dance of the administrative lemons, feeding at the trough, riding the gravy train.
If salaries and bonuses are this skewed, the board is not doing their fiduciary responsibility. Perhaps the public should entrust the teachers to negotiate the admin salaries? Whats good for the goose…
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If the billionaire autocrat-oligarchs that worship at the altar of avarice want to keep their Gestapo leadership team happy, they must keep paying them inflated incomes because these minions also worship at the altar of avarice.
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A principal in the Rochester city school District makes $250,000.
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While we L.A. teachers were out on strike, board president and charter cheerleader Monica Garcia (boooo!) sent an email to all district employees thanking administrators for crossing our picket lines. Divide and conquer.
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Garcia has got to go.
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I’ll say that again. Garcia has got to go.
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[re-posted to the Colo. Coalition for the Defense of Public Ed. Facebook page]
Thank You!
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(not on topic) Virginia teachers will be marching on the capitol on Monday Jan 28. see
https://www.richmond.com/news/local/education/virginia-teachers-are-marching-on-the-capitol-on-monday-here/article_36c19a96-959f-53a4-9589-28971801500a.html
There are persistent rumors of a possible strike. Suggest you examine this .
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I would love to see this data disaggregated by race. It matters. #colonization
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