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COMMENT 303585	2012-08-01 07:09 AM
What happened to Sally Kingston who was Harding's principal? Is she on the move AGAIN?
COMMENT 303593	2012-08-01 07:34 AM
How about hiring some frikin teachers instead of overpaid, underworked administrators?
COMMENT 303664P	2012-08-01 10:52 AM
Where do you get the notion that these people are underworked? These are not "top level" administrators who sit in offices cutting deals, these are the ones who go to school every day and make things happen for children and teachers. Have you been to any of these schools, seen what people do there? Seen the massive amount of paperwork and "reports" required by the state? The Open Alternative principal is half time. Maybe they already have enough staff, and not enough teachers, but you certainly can't tell from reading the above article. I don't know, I'm just a public school parent. These salaries don't seem ridiculous to me, even though they are way over what I make self-employed. Not like the nearly 200k for the higher ups, who never show up at schools except maybe for graduation ceremonies.
COMMENT 303831	2012-08-01 07:19 PM
Teachers unions have put in so many job protection regulations they themselves created the need for more administrators to carry out the darn regulations. Because if a single sentence of a regulation is not carried out perfectly, the teacher union's job steward is on the district with a lawsuit faster than a dog on red meat. Next time you are in the County Courthouse, go take a look at the Education Code in the law library - rows of books all dense with teacher union protection legislation. Shocking, really. When you calculate it out, per hour teachers and administrators make pretty much the same hourly rate. Teachers only have to work 180 days while administrators work 12 months a year. Teachers either get to have all that extra time off or find other jobs and make even more money.
COMMENT 303875P	2012-08-02 12:25 AM
Director of Technology, earning 6 figures? Really? He better be really good for that kind of money.
COMMENT 303831	2012-08-02 09:06 AM
Where are you going to get people "good in technology" to work for less? There is something called the private market place, but employee union shills within the system tend to know very little about the private market.

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