What day isn't when it comes to distortions, diversions, deceit, and obfuscation with a dose of jupremacism and elitist in$ult?
"Match Charter School in Boston billed the year of tutoring volunteerism — nearly 10-hour school days and additional duties at night — as an opportunity to give back and gain a true sense of what it is like to work in an urban school. For their efforts, the tutors, who are mainly recent college graduates, were paid a $7,500 annual stipend and received free housing. But in an abrupt switch last summer, after recruiting this year’s 153-member tutoring force, Match decided to make them paid employees, at $8 an hour, the state’s minimum wage. Tutors ended up seeing little of that increase in their pay checks because Match also decided to start charging them $5,500 annually for housing and stopped reimbursing them for health insurance. Some tutors also raised concerns they were not being paid for all the hours they were working, essentially reducing their hourly rate below the state’s minimum wage, according to e-mails and memos provided to the Globe."
But, but, but, charter schools that drain tax revenue from $hitty public schools are the $avior to all our education woes.
"Some chafe at charter school’s low pay for tutors; Service model getting wide use" by James Vaznis | Globe Staff, December 30, 2013
A dispute over the minimal pay for long hours of public service offers a rare glimpse into labor unrest at a charter school, where workers usually make less than their peers in traditional public schools and rarely belong to a union....
Good. From what I generally read in the Globe, teacher's unions suck.
"Teachers across the country rallied for more funding and less testing Monday as part of a national ‘‘Day of Action’’ organized in several states."
There they go again. Now give back those promised pensions and health benefits so this state and the federal government can lavish even more money on well-connected corporations and Wall Street banks!
Match Charter School in Boston billed the year of tutoring volunteerism — nearly 10-hour school days and additional duties at night — as an opportunity to give back and gain a true sense of what it is like to work in an urban school. For their efforts, the tutors, who are mainly recent college graduates, were paid a $7,500 annual stipend and received free housing.
Yeah, don't you recent college graduates loaded with debt worry about poverty wages while the 1%and related echelon elite clean up fabulou$ly.
But in an abrupt switch last summer, after recruiting this year’s 153-member tutoring force, Match decided to make them paid employees, at $8 an hour, the state’s minimum wage.
Tutors ended up seeing little of that increase in their pay checks because Match also decided to start charging them $5,500 annually for housing and stopped reimbursing them for health insurance.
I'm sure Obummercare will solve that problem if you can log on, but that's some deal for the newly-minted, gleaming-eyed graduates seeking to make a difference in the world, huh?
Some tutors also raised concerns they were not being paid for all the hours they were working, essentially reducing their hourly rate below the state’s minimum wage, according to e-mails and memos provided to the Globe.
“They were trying to push us under the rug and be quiet,” said one tutor, who declined to be identifiedbecause she was not authorized to speak with the media. “It’s incredibly disheartening.”
Match defended its handling of the change in pay structure, saying it needed time to ramp up record-keeping efforts. The school eventually paid $82,000 in back wages to nearly all the tutors in October — the median payout was about $540 — after implementing a time-card system, enabling tutors to file all their hours for the previous two months.
And they are complaining? What ungratefuls! Lucky to have a job! I'm glad my corporately-liberal paper is looking out for them, though.
(Ever ask yourself if they had been doing their job as a check on power that this $ituation and others like it would be less in our society? Ever find yourself saying despite the agenda-pu$hing change it is really a $tatu$ quo in$trument at root?)
“We have never wavered from our commitment to meet minimum wage laws, and from the outset of the academic year worked hard to manage tutor schedules accordingly,” Stig Leschly, the school’s chief executive officer, wrote in an e-mail.
But he added, “As we got underway, we realized how difficult it is to regulate exactly the work patterns of 153 tutors and how — despite our preferences and intentions — we might be out of synch with minimum wage requirements.”
Why did you drop the benefits?
The idea of intensive tutoring is gaining traction in the Boston public schools. To stave off a state takeover of English High School and the Elihu Greenwood Leadership Academy, the School Department has partnered with the nonprofit Blueprint School Networks, which created a math tutoring program based on Match’s model.
So how much did that contract co$t the $chool $y$tem, and which well-connected concern was $ated?
But the partnership has run into obstacles with the Boston Teachers Union, which contends the now approximately $20,000-a-year salary for the tutors is still too low and has filed for arbitration....
Damn teacher unions that have destroyed our children!
You know what, folks? This isn't really a good match for me.
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A promotion would be an elevation to adjunct professor at a community college.
Too bad you guys didn't become president:
"Brandeis may alter pay policy for leaders" by Todd Wallack | Globe Staff, December 30, 2013
Brandeis University’s board of trustees is considering revamping its compensation policies as early as next month after an uproar over pay to its former president, Jehuda Reinharz, and other administrators.
I seem to remember some braying about that jackass.
And you thought my comments were rooted in anti-semitism?
I'm simply reporting what I see in front of me.
Both alumni and faculty said they were outraged after recently learning that Reinharz has earned at least $1.2 million for part-time advisory work since stepping down as president at the end of 2010. In addition, some teachers and graduates said they had concerns about the pay Reinharz and his wife received when he was president, as well as $3 million in retirement pay given to another former Brandeis executive, Peter French.
Nearly 1,600 alumni, students, and other people with ties to Brandeis have signed a petition protesting Reinharz’s pay and asking the board to overhaul its compensation policies. Faculty representatives, meanwhile, called on the board to make changes to improve transparency, oversight, and fairness in pay....
Why would they have to do that?
Brandeis is hardly the only college to face criticism over its administrative pay, which the Globe detailed in a report last month. But some said the issue is particularly resonant at Brandeis because the Waltham school has long considered social justice one of its core values.
Well, their is social justice and then their (sic) is $ocial ju$tice.
In addition, faculty said they had no idea Jehuda Reinharz was being paid so much in 2009, a time when the school said its finances were so dire it was forced to let go dozens of staffers, suspend contributions to faculty retirement plans, and explore an aborted plan to close its campus museum and sell its art.
When the altruistic and benevolent ejewkhazion $y$tem of indoctrination and inculcation is full of thieves what hope do any of us have?
“We weren’t being given the full picture,” said Sarah Mead, a Brandeis music professor and member of the budget committee. “That’s one of the reasons we feel so betrayed.”
That's the way I feel about my propaganda pre$$.
Faculty later learned that Reinharz earned $1.5 million in total compensation in 2009, making him the 11th highest paid college president in the country, according to a survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education. And that same year, the school quietly struck a deal to keep paying Reinharz as president emeritus after he stepped down at the end of 2010 to become president of the Mandel Foundation, a Cleveland philanthropy that has long given grants to Brandeis....
In addition, the school acknowledged for the first time on Friday that it paid Reinharz’s wife tens of thousands of dollars extra a year to assist him with his presidential duties.
Last year, Shulamit Reinharz earned $121,297 as director of the Women’s Studies Research Center and as a professor of sociology, close to the median for full professors at Brandeis.
But when her husband was president, Shulamit was given the additional title of “special assistant to the president” and received an extra $30,000 a year to help host events and raise money on top of her professorial salary, according to Brandeis spokeswoman Ellen de Graffenreid. In total, she earned $165,685 in 2010, well above the average for Brandeis faculty.
And you students were facing service cuts and tuition increases?
“That’s crazy,” said Lev Hirschhorn, a community organizer who graduated from Brandeis in 2011 and helped start the petition protesting Jehuda Reinharz’s pay.
Need I even type it?
It’s not uncommon for the spouses of college presidents to join the faculty. And some others around the country receive a modest salary to serve as host and help with fund-raising or other duties.
Look at the Globe basically making an apology for it all.
For instance, Clark University in Worcester....
This article isn't about them! This "other people do it to" attitude that has infected our society and that is trotted out as an excuse for all sorts of reprehensible behavior needs to stop or be applied fairly with a self-examination in the mirror, media $cum.
Shulamit Reinharz, 67, did not return calls or e-mail seeking comment on the arrangement.
By contrast, Brandeis said the current president’s wife, Kathy Lawrence, is unpaid, even though she also helps with fund-raising and hosting events. She also serves as a senior lecturer in the English Department and is scheduled to teach a class in the spring....
AmeriKa's educational institutions are nothing more then ince$tuous ivory towers filled by nepoti$m.
The school also disclosed that it paid French, its former chief operating officer, $3.2 million in 2010, the year after he retired. The school said in its tax forms that the payment included $735,251 in deferred compensation (most of which previously had been disclosed) and $1.9 million because he was forced to leave his position due to a disability.
What's his pension?
Perry Traquina, an investment executive who chairs the school’s board of trustees, did not return a call seeking comment. But he told the Brandeis community in an open letter last month that he was aware of concerns about the school’s compensation and is committed to addressing them.
“One of my highest priorities will be to ensure that all current and future executive pay packages at Brandeis are fair, motivational, and consistent with best practices,” Traquina wrote.
Mead, the member of the budget committee, said she was confident the Faculty Senate would ask questions about the pay for Shulamit Reinharz and optimistic the board and President Frederick Lawrence would improve the compensation policies.
“I am quite certain that our current administration is committed to transparency and the concept of social justice,” Mead said.
Yeah, everything will be all right.
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"3 in state among top in college heads’ pay" by Joshua Miller | Globe Staff, December 16, 2013
Three of the highest-compensated private college and university presidents in 2011 were at the helm of Massachusetts schools, according to a survey released Sunday by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be well-paid, but when you consider the condition of this country for the vast majority of us....
In 2011, the presidents of Northeastern University in Boston, Tufts University in Medford, and Amherst College all received hefty compensation packages worth more than a million and a half dollars. Each had his pay bolstered by big, one-time retirement benefits, a source of recent controversy at other schools.
The annual report, based on the tax filings of 500 private, nonprofit colleges and universities, provides a national perspective on academic compensation — a subject often fraught with emotion in an era of staggering tuitions and students burdened with loan debt.
Yeah, don't get so emotional about being looted, says the monied mouthpiece and apologist for wealth.
The Chronicle of Higher Education survey, based on the most recently available data, found that in 2011, Northeastern University’s president, Joseph E. Aoun, was awarded $3.1 million in total compensation, more than every other college and university chief except the president of the University of Chicago, Robert J. Zimmer, who had total compensation of $3.4 million....
I'm going to $pare you kids the rest.
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The saddest thing is even education (and health) have become a bu$ine$$ to $erve banks and its in$titutions are administered by the same elite money addicts running Wall Street. The truth is a $croll away, kids.
As for the rest of it, I may bring some items to you but I just don't like the agenda-pushing lies anymore, sorry.
