Posted on 03/10/2016 7:50:53 AM PST by MichCapCon
Teachers in Farmington Public Schools are paid more than $83,000 per year on average, giving the metro Detroit district the state’s highest paid educators, according to an annual report from the Michigan Department of Education.
The top 10 districts with the highest teacher salaries are:
Farmington: $83,903 Walled Lake: $80,058 Warren Consolidated: $78,866 Livonia: $78,183 Wyandotte: $78,044 Utica: $77,435 Centerline: $77,118 Allen Park: $76,531 Birmingham: $75,846 Grosse Pointe: $74,824 The list comes with a footnote, however: In analyzing this state's compilation of school district pay in recent years, Michigan Capitol Confidential has found a number of errors.
For example, Flint Community School teachers reportedly saw their average salary increase from $62,920 in 2013-14 to $77,211 the following year. That would represent a one-year pay increase of 23 percent, and make Flint teachers the ninth-highest paid in the state.
The $62,920 salary figure is consistent with the Flint district’s union contract, which prescribes a salary scale that tops out at $66,780. But in the 2014-15 school year, a separate database of teachers in the state-run school pension system indicates that just one of Flint’s 630-plus teachers earned more than the supposed average of $77,211.
Flint Community Schools Superintendent Bilal Tawwab said Tuesday in an email that the district was looking into how the salary information was reported to the MDE.
Every year, the Michigan Department of Education releases salary information on what school districts pay their teachers, in a report called “Bulletin 1014.” The data is fairly reliable, but errors do creep in.
The Michigan Department of Education reiterated an earlier statement that each year it asks school districts to verify that the information in the database is accurate before it is published. Still, sometimes the numbers don’t add up.
According to the MDE annual report, DeTour Area Schools has the state’s highest average teacher salary at $89,373, which is not accurate. Superintendent Angela Reed explained that the rural Upper Peninsula district has an arrangement with a charter school called the DeTour Arts and Technology Academy. The charter school teachers are considered employees of the DeTour school district, while the school district’s teacher positions are divided between the two separate entities. The MDE report shows the average salary at the DeTour charter school is $0 per year.
If the DeTour figures were correct, that would make Farmington’s average teacher salary of $83,903 the state’s second-highest in 2014-15, and DeTour the highest. The top-of-the-scale salary in the Farmington district’s union contract is $107,000 a year.
...for about 9 months of “work” a year. What a racket.
All we need is more money and we can do a better job. (sarc.)
My high school daughter has an AP American History teacher (in our unionized district) who has been sick, and now pregnant, for much of the year. I wasn’t terribly impressed with this teacher before, and now she is constantly out on sick leave. The school has responded by sending in substitutes of various types and levels, which has simply made the entire year a waste of time and put the kids far behind.
So our daughter can be prepared for the AP test at year end, we hired an on-line tutoring service. We pay a smart, young, energetic graduate student, who we get to fully evaluate, can keep or reject - to tutor my daughter on-line. in just a few sessions, this tutor has given many tips on the upcoming exam, how to look at the subject, important segments and trends. She sits in the Houston area, while we are in NY. My daughter says she’s learned more in 4 sessions and her own study than 4 months of her public school classroom.
It made me realize that the super expensive, unionized, nanny-state public education bureaucracy is a dinosaur just waiting for a comet to come and make them extinct.
$83,000 per year on average!!!
I bet only 50% pass who can actually read and write. None know much about our history except the socialist viewpoint.
9 months? My sister who is near retirement in that district worked 4 months last year. She took off 2 freaking mints for a simple cataract surgery. I’ve had the same surgery and was back to work the next day. When I told her I thought this was wrong she said we all pay into a sick fund and towards retirement we all do this. If we don’t use it, we lose it
That kind of crap drives me nuts. And I’m not afraid to tell her so. Naturally she’s a dem. I love her of course. But I don’t respect her for this.
2 mints= 2 months. Damn auto spell!!
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