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He's already out of jail. Frank Tassone... he should absolutely donate every piece of his pension he doesen't need for minimal survival back to the taxpayers of Roslyn and NYS.
Yeah I know that dirtbag is out ... he's nothing but a common criminal and I am sure that greedy thing will NOT be donating anything back to the taxpayers considering what they already gave him wasn't enough to the tune of 7 figures that he had to steal from them.
I am also saying that there are way more administrators then we need. You could put a big dent in school budgets without reducing services or increasing class sizes simply by drastically reducing the number of highly paid administrators.
Like I have said before, county-wide administrative consolidation on everything ABOVE the school principal level would help the taxpayers tremendously.
Like I have said before, county-wide administrative consolidation on everything ABOVE the school principal level would help the taxpayers tremendously.
While consolidating at higher levels would save money, I'm not sure that I support moving power away from the local voters.
While consolidating at higher levels would save money, I'm not sure that I support moving power away from the local voters.
I wish the local voters would actually use their power! There is a notoriously tiny turnout when it comes to school budget and BOE election voting. County elections attract more voters at least.
Yes, crooks, he was such A ONCE IN A LIFETIME FIND FOR EDUCATION -- A RARE AND HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSON THAT IS EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND ... that they just had to hire him again after retirement. Tsk tsk someone will come in and take you to task like they did me for complaining about a similar swindle that happened close to a year ago. My post:
Their answer (if I recall correctly, a self-proclaimed LI teacher who does not know the difference between the words "hire" and "higher") explaining why it made perfect sense to pay someone a huge pension and a huge salary at the same time:
This is exactly what I am taking about. This expenditure is a given, if they higher a new asst. superintendent to replace this guy or girl, the amount of money going out would potentially be higher or at least similar because they have to pay this new guys salary plus his benefits and pension contribution for him. It actually saves money having this one person get it rather than having him take his pension and not be working and having another person on staff. Possibly the district could higher a super at a lower wage, but as far as I know there is actually not a large supply of candidates that meet the qualifications and most of them elicit high salaries coming in as well.
Granted, you may still think the salaries themselves are too high, but to single out certain people and gasp, while understandable, from a strictly cost based analysis may be misplaced.
While consolidating at higher levels would save money, I'm not sure that I support moving power away from the local voters.
I agree Tom. There is potential to save at consolidation of services like transportation, accounting, legal, etc. I would not condone taking control of the education piece out of the localities control. My response to the NYC model of having one chancellor is I would not model my school district after the NYC model.
RE:There is potential to save at consolidation of services like transportation, accounting, legal, etc.
Don't you people get it? 75 to 85 % of all School District budgets are made up of teachers, administrators & Superintendents salaries and benefits...with the teachers taking up a huge majority of it. Until salaries and benefits are cut everything else is a jerk job.
Don't forget they're getting these outrageous salaries and benefits for working about 160 days a year!
Teachers take up the majority of expenses because there are more of them. However, the fat is in the adminstrators. They could easily be cut without affecting the quality of education or class sizes.
What's with this double dipping?? 8 out of 10 New York state school retirees with annual payouts of more than $205,000 are ex-superintendents from Nassau and Suffolk???
"The pension king is former Commack Union School Superintendent James Hunderfund, who retired in 2006. He receives a whopping annual payout of $316,245.
And he's a double dipper. After retiring from Commack, he was hired as the superintendent of the Malverne School District and is now pulling down at least another $225,000 in salary. "
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