Posted on 10/13/2010 7:43:54 AM PDT by MichCapCon
When Kevin O'Neill said he arrived in Coopersville School District in 1998 as the superintendent, he said it had a $10,000 fund balance.
"There was no money to be had," O'Neill said.
Today, there is about $5 million in the fund balance, and O'Neill's annual compensation costs the district almost $120 per student.
That's part of the reason that O'Neill is among the highest-paid superintendents in the state for the district with 2,600 students, located about 20 miles west of Grand Rapids in Ottawa County.
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is compiling a database of the state's highest paid educators. The information is based on the districts that complied with state law and put the information on their web sites.
O'Neill's compensation of $311,034 is currently third-highest in the state, behind Utica Community Schools ($316,115) and Kalamazoo Public Schools ($314,640). Utica has more than 29,000 students and is the state's second-largest district. Kalamazoo has about 11,500 students....
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MI ping on superintendent pay
I’m in Utica. It’s not great here.
He might be worth this compensation if the $5 million fund balance was obtained without tax increases through elimination of budget waste and that student performance increased. If neither are the case then he is grossly overpaid.
Try $125k. I bet the sucker would do the same job for $125k.
We seriously need to chop out ALL administrative overhead out of each and every school district. THAT is where the money goes and they demand even more. A school should have teachers, a principal, maintenance workers and various support staff. That’s it. Period.
School Board - you’re fired!
He got the fund balance with three millages passed. Tax increases.
The district is smaller than my high school was.
It all depends on how he got there. Smart decisions then he is worth the pay. Hiking taxes and fewer students then he should be canned..
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