Posted on 09/05/2008 6:47:13 PM PDT by Coleus
New Jersey taxpayers will have to shell out more than $36 million in coming years to cover school administrator retirement payments as more than 30 school administrators are due six-figure retirement packages, according to a new state analysis. The state initiated the study, and new rules on retirement packages, after it was reported that retired Keansburg Superintendent Barbara Trzeszkowski was due $740,876 in unused sick time and other buybacks. That led to lawmakers to place caps on new contracts.
The state Attorney General's Office is trying to get a judge to nullify the payment to Trzeszkowski. Meanwhile, the new numbers for the state show other school administrators are due generous retirement packages. Guttenberg business administrator Jolene Mantineo is entitled to $258,802. Wall Township Superintendent James Habel and Somerset Hills Superintendent Peter Miller are also due more than $200,000. ,Retirement payments for many other school administrators are well below the new caps. The average is slightly over $10,000 on a typical salary of about $108,000. Current school administrator contracts may not be covered by new regulations, but future contracts will be, said state Education Commissioner Lucille E. Davy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Monday’s headline in the New Jersey Star (or whatever the major paper is called over there): “School Board Calls for More Funds: Students Hurting”
Funny how the media never seems to connect failing schools to money spent on administrators and ineffective teachers.
Legal theft from the state treasury under a Democratic Party regime...
who’d-a-thunk-it!
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These people in these liberal blue states have no sympathy for they keep electing Political machines as their sweetheart deals.
While they’re at it, they ought to check some of the sweetheart deals due firefighters, especially captains.
When I lived in SC, people said, “Thank God for MS.” Now that I live in CA, I hear people say, “Thank God for NJ.”
ping
Only 30?
Must be a slow year for the NJEA.
True, but if you check it you will find that it is happening all over this country and under both parties. And in all levels of city and country government as well as the school systems.
But it’s all for the children ...
Keep voting in Lousenberg the cript keeper, courizine and thier ilk. You get what you vote for.
In Jackson MS, we have a superintendent that lost his job after he sexually harassed another male principal and incurred more almost $1mil in legal fees for his defense. He resigned from his position, which is now covered by another superintendent, but is still receiving MORE than his previous salary of $170,000 to be a “best practices” consultant. And Jackson Public Schools can figure out why no teachers want to work there.
In Jackson MS, we have a superintendent that lost his job after he sexually harassed another male principal and incurred more almost $1mil in legal fees for his defense. He resigned from his position, which is now covered by another superintendent, but is still receiving MORE than his previous salary of $170,000 to be a “best practices” consultant. And Jackson Public Schools can’t figure out why no teachers want to work there.
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