All teachers in the State of Texas should be good fans of the bosses who lead them down the education pathways within each of their school districts. Be willing to bet that most school boards think they have winners in the Super seats as well.
Interesting that these Super Leaders have been down to Austin to testify before the various committees on education that they want have enough money to conduct the business of education if the legislature decides to cut the education funding over the next two years. They have been filling the room with 'hot air' about how the school districts in Texas will have to lay-off teachers, decrease pay for current teachers, furlough personnel, etc. in order to meet the financial requirements of the education system.
After reviewing some of the testimony and reading the various metro daily papers is it not odd that a single Super Leader has suggested that perhaps I the Super Leader need to cut my pay instead of the drastic measures of laying-off, etc. Must be some of that personal greed coming out from within the Super Leaders. It is also interesting to note that not one Super Leader has suggested that the local districts are a little heavy in the 'middle' management area, i.e. assistant principals, curriculum directors, department heads, district communication officer, student development staff, etc.
This piece from Empower Texans is timely:
http://www.empowertexans.com/issues/superintendent_salaries_are_a_statewide_problem
Superintendent Salaries Are A Statewide Problem provides some very insightful issues with regards to how Super Leaders have chosen the route of personal greed, and school boards have allowed the greed to be common within the education system.
Folks, it is your money that is being used to create and cause such a problem. Let the folks in Austin know that your pocketbook is short on funds and you don't have the luxury of a greed problem. The teachers need to revolt and demand that some of those Super Leader funds come their way in place of taking a reduction in pay. After all is the money not better spent on those who actually do the work?
Your Super Leaders are filling you full of 'hot air'!
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Did anyone besides me find it peculiar that the PISD School Board quietly but quickly redid the Superintendent's pay package last week? Did you find it peculiar that the Gazette had the story all over its front page AFTER the deed was done, but no mention was made of the details, items like the length of the extension or the amount of her new salary? Was that omission just poor reporting or did the School Board and the newspaper think it unnecessary to explain this new expenditure to the taxpayers?
And now it is whispered that she is spending time in Austin, lobbying for new taxes to offset the revenue cuts the State announced several months ago. One has to ask if her new salary and contract requires her to become a paid lobbyist for a state-wide effort to raise local taxes.
One might assume that her position requires her to run the PISD, and not travel the state using taxpayer monies to lobby for increased local taxes. One might also question whether that is even legal. And, since we are asking, has she received School Board approval to be away from the district, doing non-district work, and leaving someone else to run the school district in her absence, and being paid PISD tax dollars while absent from her job?
A last question: The School Board has known for several months that the State revenue flow would be reduced by almost $2.5 million. Evidently neither the Board nor Super has taken responsibility for forming a plan to make up the shortfall. They have recklessly spent almost $1.6 million for a new gym, and $700,000 for the old Emmanuel church, which their architech told them, a year ago, was not fit to use as a school building. Who is running this ship?
Who is in charge?
Why is raising taxes the only answer.
Why isn't reducing spending a better plan.
Why is the Super demanding new taxes? It is not her job. It is the job of the School Board. Maybe they don't want the responsibility. Maybe they don't want to face the voters.
But we will be watching.
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