ROCHESTER, NY: Highest paid school board members — but only 8% of 4th graders can read
November 26, 2018
By Victor Skinner
New York’s worst school district is paying its board of commissioners more than any other in the state.
It’s an offensively ironic situation that’s prompting some to call for a change in light of a recent assessment by a state-appointed watchdog that found “a total reset†in district leadership is the only way for the Rochester City School District to correct course after decades of dysfunction.
Democrat & Chronicle columnist David Andreatta made the case for re-evaluating board members’ five-figure salaries in a recent editorial.
“Why are we paying the school board members so much?†Andreatta wrote. “Of the roughly 700 school boards in New York, only a handful pay their elected representatives, and the rate of pay in Rochester tops the list by a mile.
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