Pigs Squeal
School Superintendents who stand to take pay cuts and loss of generous perks when Governor Chris Christie’s pay caps take effect are starting to squeal like pigs in the press.
Bloomberg has an article this morning, Christie Attack on Pay Enrages N.J. Republican Towns `Bullied’ by Governor.
Bloomberg must be sharing their headline writers with the Asbury Park Press. The article doesn’t report on enraged Republican towns. It quotes a superintendent that will take a pay cut, McGreevey’s education commissioner, and a school board member from Franklin Lakes. Senator Ray Lesniak was quoted as saying that superintendents will “convey the message to the families and to the students. They are going to be very upset.”
Why are these superintendents upset? I thought we had to pay them $200,000 + because that is what the market is for good superintendents. If that is what they can get elsewhere, why don’t they shut up and go get it? Because they are really love to the kids they are superindenting now and don’t want to leave them? They love them all right. They love they lifestyle the kids provide that the supers could never earn in the competitive private sector and will not be found in school districts in other states.
The market has changed. Superintendents are going to have to deal with that like the rest of us.
Posted: November 24th, 2010 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Chris Christie | Tags: Superintendent pay caps | 1 Comment »