SHOCK!!! TKC BLOG COMMUNITY DISCOVERS ROOM TO SNIP AMID SHAWNEE MISSION SCHOOL DISTRICT CASH CRISIS!!!
Education funding cuts in the Golden Ghetto dominate local Kansas suburbanite concerns as of late . . . It seems the prospect of harsh times interfering with suburban good life is just too much for some people to handle . . .
Shawnee Mission School District Worried About State Budget Cuts
Thankfully . . .
THE TKC BLOG COMMUNITY FINDS A SOLUTION AND SUGGESTS A CLOSE LOOK AT SHAWNEE MISSION SCHOOL DISTRICT EXECUTIVE SALARIES AS PLACE TO LOOK FOR SAVINGS!!!
Don't get it twisted, we wouldn't dare to post any suggestion about taking cash from out of classrooms or student resources . . . We only want to consider the possibility that there might be some savings among so many Shawnee Mission District top ranking employees making well beyond six figures.
Of course our blog community brings data to back this up . . . Check these top ranking SMSD salaries starting with Superintendent Jim Hinson's SWEET $250K+ deal . . . The list just gets better from that point.
The lesson here . . . Po'folk teachers and student resources are often the first on the chopping block but both politicos and the public rarely take a look at EDUCATION EXECUTIVE PAY when it's time to talk belt tightening.
You decide . . .
This is the issue everywhere. I'm all for a decent salary for someone but 250K plus over what a teacher vs what a teacher is paid not doubt proves the SMSD is ran by idiots.
ReplyDeleteSorry about that I didn't proof read first^^^^^^^^^
ReplyDeleteIf market rate for talented superintendents is north of $200k, does the district have a choice? Based on the salaries of his peers in other districts, it looks like that is pretty close to the market rate. Not sure how the SMSD can attract and retain qualified candidates if they don't pay a market salary. Similarly, teachers will go to other districts if they are not paid a market salary. If they aren't paid enough, they won't stay in the SMSD and/or will look at other professions.
ReplyDeleteWhat is up with the purchase of the Entercom property? Why would they buy the property without having the funds to build the building? Is there a problem with the existing school site (i.e. build in the backyard of the existing school like they do for other projects)? If they do build on the Entercom property, what will be done with the old school site? Since the Westwood View enrollment is the lowest in the district, are they going to do a boundary change to reduce crowding at other elementary schools?
All school districts have huge salaries for superintendents--KCPS is $225 for a fraction of students and facilities. It's not that simple, though I agree it's inflated.
ReplyDeleteHow's the Roasterie Airplane boycott workin' out for ya?
ReplyDelete^^^ The plane is still on the roof.
ReplyDeleteTony's Power and Light district boycott.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can revive that effort from the dead.
YES, that is what will work. Create a wage scale for management that is under market and we can save a few bucks by attracting candidates that can't get jobs anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteThink of it as the John Sharp approach when he got his job with MAST. He was smart enough to understand he could not compete with candidates at the market rate, so he manipulated the system to do exactly what you are suggesting.
You get what you pay for.
BTW, how did that work out for MAST?
Effective leadership is critical in any organization. And because it is abstract to people that fail to recognize it's value because it does not involve teaching, cleaning toilets, or performing landscaping maintenance, does not mean it does critically impact the quality of education for the kiddos.
BTW, I am not in the field of public education, but I get compensated for providing for understanding the way that top performing organizations work.
Tony, you want to perform a service with your blogging, get informed about shit rather than spinning up posts that pander to emotional responses to your stimuli for the benefit of attention.
Just a warning, you would have to put down that lens of "everything sucks" and "everyone who makes more than I do", must be motivated to only serve themselves.
School administrators, hospital administrators, college/professional coaches, corporate CEO's, etc., are CIRCUIT RIDERS.
ReplyDeleteTheir industries have largely been taken over by GREED. It's a game of "get as much as you can in the short-term, then rotate to a new location and do it again."
In your SMSD databank example, please recall that Superintendent Hinson jumped the stateline from Independence MO. He's going for big paydays and retirement plans from both Missouri and Kansas.
One thing wrong with the school district is the number of administrative and support personnel that is off the charts. I encourage people to look at job positions and numbers in this school system. I'm surprised they haven't hire a crew massage therapist. Time to cut the extravagance and bullshit and get back to basics folks.
ReplyDeleteWe all knew this was coming when the SMSD superintendent commented several weeks ago he wasn't sure schools wouldn't open next fall.
ReplyDeleteThat district's problem is declining enrollment but an unwillingness to cut positions based on those drops. For a district that used to be the gold standard for districts in Kansas, they've become rather mediocre over the past decade as parents who could afford to live in the Blue Valley district relocated from SMSD.
Kansas has the local option budget, but he doesn't have the balls to recommend a tax increase to local taxpayers. He'd rather whine and blame the state rather than fix any real or imagined funding shortfall at the local level.
Five associate or deputy superintendents AND a chief academic officer? Whooop, there it is. I understand the directors, but there are as many superintendents as department heads.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the good old days when there was a superintendent and a deputy superintendent?
11:15 - that is exactly the problem not only with public school districts, but also with public universities. I have no quarrel with the salaries of top administrators, there are just too many of them. I do wonder how much of the perceived over-staffing is due to having to comply with over-regulation by the federal DOE.
ReplyDeleteGet ready for another Bond while you still pay for the last one,and the one before that,and before that.
ReplyDeletei wunder ifens i cud gits a jod up dere.i gots my ged is dey cooolwif niggaz at dis schoool?
ReplyDeleteI see the Principal of Brookwood Elementary in Leawood is making nice dividends from screwing the previous Superintendent
ReplyDeletequit teaching niggers
ReplyDeletebig waste of money