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A public spending watchdog says the highest public school salary in the state outside of New York City is more than $506,000. The Empire Center for Public Policy also says four districts have average teacher salaries more than $95,000. The cent Read More

A searchable online database of earnings for 373,971 employees of New York State school districts outside New York City has been was posted at www.SeeThroughNY.net, the transparency website sponsored by theEmpireCenter for New York State Policy. T Read More

Long Island schools pay employees more on average than those in any other region of New York, and the state's 10 top-paid administrators were in school districts here -- each making more than $350,000, an Albany think tank reported yesterday. Tota Read More

The sagging economy has done little to slow the upward creep of public school pay. A new study released Thursday shows that the highest public school pay in the state outside of New York City is more than $506,000, which is for the superintendent Read More

New York is not Wisconsin, or Ohio. Instead of grinding through a contentious effort to strip unions of their collective bargaining rights like in other states, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was able to wring concessions from the state's two largest unions witho Read More