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Thursday, March 12, 2009
News Gorman, you twit
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM
You're right. What the children of Charlotte need are fewer teachers, with a starting pay just over $33.000, and 80 percent more administrators, like you, who make more than $100,000 annually. And, don't you bother taking a pay-cut, either. The rank and file realize how difficult it must be to live on a quarter million dollars per year. Thanks for thinking of our collective future, sir!
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman says teachers calling for administrative layoffs have their facts wrong.The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Association of Educators yesterday organized a protest of teacher layoffs and called for "pruning the top" instead. Gorman proposes eliminating 456 teachers and 83 assistant principals.
Read the rest of this WFAE article here.
Further reading from TradingMarkets.com:
Number of 6-figure CMS salaries up again: 29% increase in past year follows '07 trend
Gorman is the county's best paid local-government employee. He makes $260,000 a year -- $2,500 less than Del Burns gets for running the slightly larger Wake County Schools. But Gorman's extras -- $35,000 for retirement and a performance bonus up to $26,000 -- push his total package past Burns'.
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