School Administrators
Right now we have administrators taking home six-figure incomes while their students graduate to minimum wage jobs — or no job at all. The success or failure of their students has no impact on their lavish salaries and perks. This is also something which I find unacceptable.
It’s time we linked district administrator salaries to concrete metrics, such as student performance and parent satisfaction.
It is something widely talked about to link teacher salaries to student performance. But many teachers I have spoken with tell me that they do not have the resources or decision making power necessary to do better. Often, the efforts of our teachers are blocked, or left to wither for lack of support. It is the administrators who are responsible for this failure, but it is the teachers who take the blame, while administrators take home fat paychecks.
I will do everything in my power to change this situation, and hold those accountable who actually have the power to make a change, those who are actually responsible for the problems our schools are facing.
It’s been said that we need to have high salaries to attract the best and the brightest. But, we’ve been doing that for decades now and it hasn’t produced any substantial improvements. Let’s try something else. We will give newly hired administrators a one year grace period so that struggling schools will still attract talented people.