The Chris Christie Cap
Faced with a budget crisis in New Jersey that’s impacting services across the board, including education, Republican Gov. Chris Christie pushed through a bill that would cap the salaries of school administrators based on the number of students in a district. The bill would also cut the salaries of administrators who make more than the allowable, capped maximum, while tying in merit-based bonuses.
This hasn’t sat well with school superintendents drawing fat paychecks, nor the school districts who lavishly award excessive contracts as a way of proving their own worth.
The new bill, however, doesn’t go into effect until February, and already some school districts are trying to sneak their way around it by renewing administrative contracts before the hard cap is in place. The new contracts, of course, include salaries that wouldn’t fly under the cap.
Christie hasn’t taken the twist lightly, blasting a superintendent who pulled the contract hustle as “the new poster boy” for public-sector greed and arrogance.
Hmmmm; wonder what Christie would have to say about our own illustrious board of education pushing through $1.2 million in contract extensions to top executives, a week before voting to close 11 schools because the district is stone-broke.
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