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After the Sun-Times exposed some of the highest-paid school superintendent salaries, lawmakers are saying they want school systems to fully disclose the salaries and “hidden benefits” extended to school officials. The Sun-Times called out former Supt. Neil Codell was bringing home $411,500 for the last school year; he oversaw two schools in Niles Township High School District 219. It’s interesting to know that G-Rod’s base pay was $177,412.
Former school superintendent and member of the House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee Representative Jerry Mitchell told the S-T:
Holy cow. How much more is [Codell] making than the governor? Is his job more important than being responsible for the whole budget of Illinois?
State Senator Dan Cronin is calling for an itemized breakdown in what’s being described as the biggest single cost in education. [S-T]
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$411,500 for overseeing two schools? That's just insanity.
Holy crap, Neil Codell was my high school principal in Milwaukee. Weird.
Yep. You can check out the salaries of teachers by name or district and by year here:
http://www.championnews.net/salaries.php
Not to suggest that all administrators and educators that bring in the big bucks aren't worth it as you want to bring in the cream of the crop, but it's hard to substantiate pay like $400k & up in the public sector when performance isn't stellar and your subordinates doing the face to face work with the kiddos aren't compensated like that at all.
On the other hand, Forbes just had an article knocking police pensions and public sector pay, basically calling b.s. on paying a living wage and benefits to the people that make the public services run, including police officers and such. Attention to this kind of detail doesn't come from nowhere, but from those who are interested in seeing the reduction of government spending on domestic services and frenzied push towards a post-union work society.