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The State Of The Schools

Printed From: MiddletownUSA.com
Category: Middletown City Schools
Forum Name: School Board
Forum Description: Discuss the board individually and as a group.
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Printed Date: Nov 24 2024 at 5:22pm


Topic: The State Of The Schools
Posted By: VietVet
Subject: The State Of The Schools
Date Posted: Dec 16 2008 at 7:25am
The Rev. Tyus told us that the schools haven't been doing too well the last two years in performance. Dr. Price has the responsibility for that performance,and has received a contract extension and a raise thanks to some out-going board members (Venturella). Should the current board be looking at his performance since then and consider re-negotiating his contract and raise(or letting him go, perhaps) based on shaky results? I saw no real specific solution come from Tyus, just a generalized voodoo gameplan. Do we really expect upward movement as to ratings in 2010-11? What would convince us of that based on what was said?


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Posted By: Middletown News
Date Posted: Dec 16 2008 at 9:11am
How much does Dr. Price make? How much of a raise did he get?

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Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Dec 16 2008 at 12:04pm
Not sure- I believe he makes between $125,000-$130,000. This may be low compared to surrounding school district supers, but consider the job he is doing, regardless of the family income levels, Section 8 families, lack of degreed families in Middletown and all of the rest of the reasons used by this school system as to why they can't educate the kids but- we haven't heard a proposal for change in the form of teacher approach, curriculum, super change in approach, school board demand for accountablility from super and teachers alike,working with legal authorities to force parents to take responsibility or gaining/implementing ideas from successful school districts. None of these things have been tried and reported to the citizens of Middletown.

Posted By: Middletown News
Date Posted: Dec 16 2008 at 2:34pm
I can not believe how much money we pay administrators. And that doesn't count for double dippers who can make over $200k per year.
 
People are often outraged by Private Sector pay, but the thing we ought to be looking at is the cost of administrative personnel to run our schools.
 
Student population goes down year after year, but we still maintain about the same number of administrative personnel. And those people all get cost of living pay increases AND merit increases.
 
Where is the outrage here?


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