Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday will announce a proposal to help schools control costs by capping administrators’ salaries. The proposal would result in a salary reduction for 366 school superintendents when their current contracts expire. The announcement comes after a consultant recommended that New Jersey increase the amount it charges schools, towns and counties for employee health insurance by 6 to 12 percent.
The recommended rate increases far exceed the 2 percent cap on property tax increases that Christie signed into law this week. Health insurance is exempt from the cap.
Christie made the cap the centerpiece of a larger effort to tame the nation’s highest property taxes.
The largest portion goes to fund public schools.
Christie has proposed 32 other bills to help towns and schools control costs. AP
I bet by the end of 4 years, NJ will be 50th in education!!!
Cutting the superintendents salary wont make a dent on the childs education, and for your information superintendents make 125,000 $ a year or more.
JUST REMEMBER GOVERNOR CHRISTIE, WITHOUT TEACHERS WHERE WOULD ANYONE BE?
Oh by the way, Governor Christie, the school boards had to vote on salaries, and contracts, perhaps the NJEA was much smarter at the table.
How much do you think it costs for a Master’s degree today, a teacher would have to wait for many years just to break even with a salary comprobable to obtaining their BS and Masters Degree, try like possibly age 53, how tied down they are to paying off the loans, and never make it even until they are in their later years,
OH THE SUPERINTENDENTS, just a little too late with these people, they paid off their loans fast.
Gov Christie cut state aid to the schools. It’s up to the local BOEs to decide where to cut. They can lay off teachers (the easiest), cut non-essential programs ( which some people will cry about), or cut administrative costs (meaning salaries of people other than teachers. Christie did not say where the cuts have to be made. However, since most towns are laying off teachers, which is bad for the children, he has decided to help the towns understand where to make the cuts – in the administrator’s salaries. This is something the BOEs do not want to do because some of the administrators are their (pick one) relative, friend, owe a favor, etc.).
What came first – the chicken or the egg? The reason why education is so high, is because the higher salaries commanded after school. Do you know how much medical school cost have risen in the last decade? It is one of the main reasons, (aside from medical malpractice costs) why medical care is so expensive in this country. In other countries, as doctors do not command such high salaries as they do not have such high student loan debt, medical costs are lower. That is why you have so many foreign born doctors – they finished medical school with very little debt, and came to the US for the high salaries. If we cut the salaries of administators, they wouldn’t have to pay such high student loans. (Aside from the issue why do taxpayers have to pay for your choices, but that is a different subject entirely)
Sorry, Glitz, there are many teachers -master teachers at that- who work in private or parochial schools (with better results) who make a fraction of what their Public School counterparts make. There are no benefits or pensions, and they get the job done well.
The entire public education industry (yes, industry) has been built on its own sense of self-entitlement – the even refused give any concessions to the Govorner, whines and cries whenever their ‘entitlement’ appears threatened.
The NJEA is a professional advocacy group – they send trained pindividuals to work out contracts with hapless part-time school board members. NJEA should stand for the NJ Extortion Association.
to #6, “hapless part time school board members”? majority of BOE’s use a trained contract lawyer or arbitrator, paid for by the board.