School adminstrator salaries in the Racine Unified School District are largely in line with nearby communities, according to data compiled by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Superintendent Ann Laing was paid $150,000, while Kenosha Unified Superintendent Michelle Hancock earned $195,000 and Oak Creek Superintendent Sara Burmeister received $153,497.
The numbers are from salary information released on the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's website. The data is from the 2011-12 school year.
School districts across the state saw a larger than usual cut in staffing in the 2011-12 school year than in year's past, according to a press release from the DPI, with 2,312 positions being eliminated and 60 percent of those spots being teacher jobs.
"The 2011-13 state budget made historically high cuts to education funding," the press release said. "General school aids were cut by $749 million and the per pupil revenue limit was reduced by $1.6 billion from prior law. These large reductions accelerated the budget and staffing cuts many districts have been making over the years."
This database will allow you to search administrative salaries only in the 424 districts statewide.
Because we all know that one Communities mistake in overpaying for a government position immediately justifies raising the surrounding communities salaries! One overpaid and overcompensated bureaucrat running a Corporate monopoly with taxing authority should not be justification for others to be overpaid - but that's the way it is in Wisconsin. Racine's new Super of RUSD is scheduled to be paid the *NEW* and *IMPROVED* salary of $200,000+ because it will increase the performance of the schools? REALLY..... Man, people are stupid and fools! Please, abolish RUSD - for the sake of the children, and let these overpaid and overcompensated bureaucrats go somewhere else with their nutty ideas. How come education worked 50 years ago - and it doesn't now..... HMMM does State college educate, or INDOCTRINATE? You can count on one CONSTANT with public education - the greater the cost - the greater the failure!
The DPI will give you more - INCLUDING the NEVER TALKED ABOUT TAX-FREE COMPENSATION PACKAGE - that RIVALS WHAT SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY GROSS IN INCOME! IT Also allows you to strip away the LIES of the teachers, their unions, and their supporters, who like to present LOWBALL figures for teacher salaries and NEVER INCLUDE THE TAX-FREE COMPENSATION PACKAGE! School, Staff and Salary Data - Straight form DPI, without the lies! http://lbstat.dpi.wi.gov/lbstat_newasr You will need to be intelligent enough to navigate it.
RUSD Superintendent Ann Laing was paid $150,000. PLUS $10,099 TAX-FREE Compensation - and you are right, she was PAID, because given RUSD's performance - she didn't EARN one thin dime. KUSD Superintendent Michelle Hancock earned $195,000. PLUS an UNBELIEVEABLE $61,740 TAX-FREE compensation! Oak Creek Superintendent Sara Burmeister received $153,497. PLUS an UNBELEIVEABLE $55,700 TAX-FREE compensation! This isn't justified - NOT ONE BIT! It is abusing their taxing authority and LOOTING communities!
KUSD Teachers: LO: $37,295 AVG: $61,872 HI: $74,693 KUSD Avg. Tax-Free Fringe: $36,073! Imagine the tax savings, alone! Oak Creek Teachers: LO: $33,752 AVG: $60,235 HI: $78,059 Oak Creek Avg. Tax-Free Fringe: $29,523 RUSD Teachers: LO: $39,150 AVG: $55,611 HI: $74,242 RUSD Avg Tax-Free Fringe: $18,680.
These cuts wouldn't be necessary IF Teachers believed in sharing and shared sacrifice. Don't listen to what they say - watch what they do. Also - IF they want to make more - Communities need to see a return on that money spent on education - as in a growing tax base and full employment. They have ALL FAILED! WHERE'S THE BEEF?
Also, comparing slaries to Oak Creek and KUSD isn't a good idea. Both districts are faring much better academically compared to RUSD. Those communities don't mind paying higher taxes when they are getting results. Remember, KUSD is comparitive in size and socio-economics, yet they are at the state average or slightly above or below it. They rolled out a plan nearly seven years ago that got them to that point. They used to have numbers closer to ours, which are 10 to 15 points below state average. We have no plan, but rather improvement is like a dart board. The administration keeps throwing darts and once and a while they get a bullseye. But that is the exception, rather than the norm. They have more money now, than before Act 10, so before someone pipes in about state funding cuts, it is just not the case in RUSD.