Did you know that Rocky’s outrageous pay is getting some more press?

I am not the only one who questions Rocky’s outrageous salary. All that pay and yet we only have an “academically acceptable” school district, again, in two consecutive years I might remind you.

Two articles from the Houston Community Newspapers has written two articles about their local superintendent’s salaries and they mention Rocky!

“Meanwhile, the highest paid superintendent for a district with roughly 5,000 students was Lake Travis ISD’s Donald Kirk at $178,000, according to TEA.”¹

“The highest paid Texas superintendent in 2006-07 for a district with roughly 5,000 students was Lake Travis’ Donald Kirk at $201,253, according to the Texas Education Agency.”²

Interesting issue: Note that I agree with the salary numbers used by the Houston Community Newspapers, they are from TEA, but why did Melissa Loe give out higher salary numbers to the Lake Travis View?

What did Melissa report about Rocky’s salary that we don’t know about?

I couldn’t believe that Melissa Loe’s account would include a “bonus?”

Rocky got a “bonus” for what? Academically acceptable, again?!

The Houston Community Newspapers also let us know more about the thoughts of the people who “make the rubber meet the road” and their outrage over scandalous and often meritless superintendent pay raises. Here is an excerpt from one of the articles:

“However, at least one CISD teacher objects to the large sums superintendents are receiving. Ronnie Seagroves, Texas State Teacher Association-Conroe president, said CISD teachers in the salary mid-range received only a 3.5 percent raise from the district this year, not counting the $2,500 they received from the state.

‘It’s very interesting to me that school boards are sending a message that the superintendents are more important than the teachers in the classroom, the bus drivers than drive students and the cafeteria workers who serve the food,’ said Seagroves, a teacher at Grangerland Intermediate School. ‘I think it’s sending a very mixed message in an education community that the guy on top is getting so much more.’ “¹

I wonder what the teachers and other employees of the LTISD think about Rocky’s outrageous pay increases?

Take a look at the roster of who makes what at the LTISD and look a the last teacher pay raise.

Here is what the President of the LTISD Board, Jim Cummings said on the recent teacher pay raise of 5% saying: ‘We are still able to give substantial raises to our teachers and continue on with the outstanding programs that we have been able to put in place at all of our campuses.’³

Don’t forget, Jim Cummings was one of the Board members who voted unanimously to raise Rocky’s salary. I doubt that “merit” had a role in that last insult to the tax payers of the district.

¹“County superintendents’ raises are all over the place”, Kassia Micek , Houston Community Newspapers, March 21, 2007

²“Superintendent salaries line up with rest of state”, Kassia Micek , Houston Community Newspapers, December 9, 2007

³“LTISD taxpayers get big break on rate”, Jay Plotkin, Lake Travis View, September 13, 2007, Volume 22, Number 37

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