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Does anyone know what a school superintendent's salary is based on? I'm currently in Plainedge, probably one of the smallest districts on long island and the superintendent Edwards Salinas is one of the highest paid on LI ($385,000/year). I don't understand it. Plainedge sports get heavily funded, the superintendent gets paid a lot, yet the district makes it very hard to get special educational services.
Does anyone know what a school superintendent's salary is based on? I'm currently in Plainedge, probably one of the smallest districts on long island and the superintendent Edwards Salinas is one of the highest paid on LI ($385,000/year). I don't understand it. Plainedge sports get heavily funded, the superintendent gets paid a lot, yet the district makes it very hard to get special educational services.
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Does anyone know what a school superintendent's salary is based on? I'm currently in Plainedge, probably one of the smallest districts on long island and the superintendent Edwards Salinas is one of the highest paid on LI ($385,000/year). I don't understand it. Plainedge sports get heavily funded, the superintendent gets paid a lot, yet the district makes it very hard to get special educational services.
Direct negotiations with the local school board. Nothing at all to do with the size of the district or availability of special education services.
These guys usually hire school admin lawyer John Gross who the Scott Boras of school admin lawyers and plays local BOEs like a fine fiddle and convinces them that their candidate is a home run.
Any candidate for a superintendent already knows the salaries of the other superintendents. So right off the bat, you start high. Then if the school district has any special deficiencies that the candidate has previously dealt with in another district, he/she is golden. Given the salaries of some of the teachers you really don't think anyone in their right mind would take less than the highest paid teacher to run the district do you?
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I guess i should place all the blame on the school board then. The taxes here are so high and it seems like the school resources are so little.
Just curious, what do you feel the deficiencies in term of school resources are? Please understand that I am not arguing your point which is a valid one, I'm just wondering where you see deficiencies.
Just curious, what do you feel the deficiencies in term of school resources are? Please understand that I am not arguing your point which is a valid one, I'm just wondering where you see deficiencies.
when my niece was younger (also at plainedge) she was struggling and the elementary school refused to give her extra help because they said she didn't score low enough ( i dont remember what kind of testing it was). eventually they moved to a different school district and they gave her the help she needed to catch up and she's doing better academically. To me it seems like plainedge just does the bare minimum when it comes to helping the kids academically.
Oh yea and i forget, the district renovated the football field recently. like that was really necessary above everything else.
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