Schools
Is $200,000 For A District Superintendent Too Much?
Lolli Haws, the new superintendent for the Racine Unified School District, will be paid $200,000 a year. Some of the superintendents in the larger school district are being paid more, and some less. But is that salary too much?
The Racine Unified School District Board of Education approved a , their choice for a new school superintendent, on Monday.
Haws serves as an instructional superintendent for the District of Columbia Public Schools in a high-crime, high poverty area. She has also been a teacher, assistant principal and principal.
Many have criticized the district for her salary. Here's what they said on Facebook:
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Melissa Young Schroeder "$200,000?!? Wow. Yet my kids can't play the recorder in music because there's no budget and I have to buy supplies for the art class because there's no budget. I could go on and on."
Jason Bennett "Meanwhile classroom budgets are slashed..."
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Kathleen Marie Weber-Tiderman "How easy it is to spend other people's hard-earned money. If we really wanted results and change in RUSD, could they have not structured a performance-based salary package? To give $40,000 more at the mere "promise" of a better performance is careless at best."
Here's how Haws' salary compares to other larger districts in the state:
What do you think?
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