Tag: Schools

The fiscally conservative Empire Center seems to be the only group actively lobbying on behalf of the bond proposal—and the think tank is decidedly against it. “The annual payments on $2 billion in bonds could ultimately come to more than $130 million a year,” E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center, wrote in an op-ed in Wednesday’s New York Post. “A far better way to ‘equalize opportunities to learn’ would be to spend that money on added annual aid to public and charter schools serving the state’s neediest children.” Read More

Local school boards and superintendents “are all over the map on” Proposal 3, the ballot initiative that would let the state borrow $2 billion for distribution to schools that want to buy new computers and build pre-kindergarten classrooms. So says Dr. Merryl H. Tisch—and as chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, she ought to know. Read More

The data, posted Thursday at government transparency project SeeThroughNY.net, show that the highest-paid school employee in 2014 was Riverhead Central Schools Assistant Superintendent Joseph Ogeka Jr., who earned $376,340. Read More

The number of school district employees outside New York City paid more than $100,000 has jumped from 32,914 in 2008-09 to 48,703 in 2013-14, according to a report from the Empire Center for Public Policy, representing a 48 percent increase over the last five years. Read More

Empire Center for Public Policy, an independent nonprofit organization based in Albany, issued a press release Thursday outlining the latest school salary data compiled by SeeThroughNY.net, which is a government transparency project sponsored by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More

The number of six-figure earners in NY's suburban and upstate schools has risen by 48% in five years. Read More

Buffalo City School District Superintendent Pamela Brown was the highest-paid school district employee in Western New York during the 2013-14 school year, according to data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net. Read More

Horseheads Central School District Superintendent Ralph Marino, Jr. was the highest-paid school district employee in the Southern Tier during the 2013-14 school year, according to data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net. Read More