"Boston schools chief gets praise, no bonus" by James Vaznis, Globe Staff | September 30, 2008
The Boston School Committee has given Superintendent Carol R. Johnson rave reviews for her first year on the job, but she will not receive a dime more in pay.
Citing tough economic times, the School Committee has decided not to give her a bonus, which under the terms of her five-year contract could have been as much as $20,000 for a job well done. For that same reason, Johnson has decided not to take a contractually guaranteed pay increase, which would have boosted her $275,000 annual salary by 2.5 percent or $6,875. Other senior school administrators also will not have pay increases this year. --more--"
That is AS IT SHOULD BE; isn't 275k a year enough?!!
And for those who think I am being cruel and unfair, get the $$$ someplace else:
Of course, "flushing . . . millions of dollars away supporting a highly profitable industry" when it comes to $300 million in taxpayer dollars for Hollywood is o.k., even as the price of a school lunch rises; paying $13 million for a computer software system that could have cost less than $3 million is all right because the winner was a close friend of the House speaker, even as my poorer-than-dirt district "has been struggling to close a $2 million budget gap."; the lottery shellling out "millions of dollars" for sports tickets for "lottery officials, their family members, and friends" is fine, even as schools are closing; making interest payments to banks to the tune of "a staggering $22 billion" for the Big Pit, as we call it around here, is required, even as bridges are neglected across the state; and again, paying off banks like UBS, who can "demand repayment of an additional $2 million a month beginning in January" while also receiving a "$179 million payment," while the state pension fund loses $1 billion dollars -- which still didn't stop the executive director from carving himself a nice "$64,000 bonus on top of his $322,000 annual salary."
