Comparable superintendent's salaries

Some of Dr. Deasy's words on accountability:
Again, read more at the PG website:
"Regarding accountability, MPE requires accountability in a clear way that holds people responsible for meeting standards. Without accountability, standards are not really
standards -- they are, at worst, suggestions and, at best, goals. This is not acceptable for the youth of PGCPS, nor the great people who work here. Accountability in PGCPS
means accountability systems, for schools and other functional units (as examples: Transportation, Fiscal, Human Resources, Maintenance, Capital Improvement, the
Office of Accountability, and Food Services, to name a few) that identify important performance indicators, measure performance using these indicators, collect and distribute performance data publicly, and apply pre-determined consequences (rankings, rewards, sanctions, and/or interventions) for achieving pre-defined outcomes. In some ways, this extends what we have always asked individual students to experience to all of the adults in the system on behalf of our youth. Accountability also means individual accountability for all district employees and students. Accountability implies consequences, both positive and negative, for without consequences there is simply no accountability. We do not intend to measure just to obtain information. We intend to measure to change behavior and reach and exceed
our stated goals."

I'm not sure just looking at SAT scores between Wake and PG county would be a good measure. Remember, PG county is basically suburban D.C. (a "real" urban city) His challenges are Wakes issue to the power of 10. PG county ended busing for diversity around 2002.
Deasy also only joined PG county in 2006 which is probably not enough time to have a great impact on SAT scores but some of the accomplishments since then are listed below.

1-More than double the number of schools exited school improvement than were exiting school improvement when we arrived (we means Deasy and a new school board, "school improvement" is some kind of NCLB label)
2- Double digit gains in proficiency in every grade and every subject
3-31% gains at some elementary grades in math
4-30% gains at some elementary grades in reading
5-18% gains for youth in poverty
6-24% gains for youth who receive special education services
7-35% gains for youth who do not speak English as a first language
8-More than a 40% increase of youth of color gaining access to AP courses

Since Mr. Burns's salary was compared to Dr. Deasy of Prince George's County, MD, I thougt y'all might want to some more information for comparison. Start with his 5 core principal's:

Dr. Deasy has five core beliefs:

1. Children ARE our business and THEY come first;

2. Parents are our partners;

3. Victory is in the classroom;

4. Continuous improvement in teaching, leadership and accountability is the key to our success; and

5. EVERY member of this community shares the responsibility for successful schools.

Here's an excerpt of a speech he gave to the DNC. "Finally, the fifth goal is to get everyone involved. The examples I’ve given are the kind of work that cannot be done solely by superintendents and school boards, or principals, or teachers. This is a community responsibility, and a national responsibility. For example, we know that families play a critical role. The education of a student is a 24-hour, 7-day, 52-week kind of effort, and the environment at home has to be as focused on academics as the environment in the classroom." Much more info can be found here: http://www1.pgcps.org/superintendent/ Take some time and read through his stuff and his amazing success in PGC (a county I once lived in). He has much, much bigger challenges than we do in Wake Co. and he is kicking but. To compare him to Del "nobody" Burns is a joke.

FACT - Raleigh is not a big city, it is a medium size one. FACT - The population density is also very low comparied to most metropolitan areas.
FACT - The consolidation occured because of social engineering.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=School_Superintendent/Salary

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=School_Superintendent/Salary/by_Company_Size

OK, so the "average" salary for Super for 25,000 student school system is $204,000 (yikes! - I'm in the wrong job!)

Split WCPSS into 4 districts. Make each one "Average" - so each district would have 136,000/4 = 34,000 students or so.

So instead of 1 super at $312K, we would have 4 supers at $204K each = $816K???

Or would each sub-wake district try to pay far below the average? And what about support staffs in each new district?

?????

Thanks for the info, as always. My following unkind remarks does not reflect my appreciation for your work here.

Given what a terrible shape public ed in America generally is, that Del Burns "burns" our budget as brightly as he does does not mean that it's OK. I'd like to see salary to performance ratios but, please, don't roll out the WCPSS statistician for that -- I'm still floored we have a spreadsheet jockey on the books. We're fancy by half and we reward the weavers of the fine costume for the naked emperor with $10 k MORE of our tax dollars for a system that makes the parents bristle.

Wake County: stop confusing spending with intent.

Holy smokes; Philly, the 5th largest city in the US, has 30 k more students than Wake County. Break this colossus up already! Send your contributions of Gatorade and Tums to Ron M.