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Note: Correction for Sunday’s story
Kudos to Buford, who was the first reader to notice this discrepency:
In Sunday’s edition of the Dayton Daily News on page A6, the story “Dayton’s poverty rate means more spent for special programs” should have listed the total salary of 157 Dayton school administrators as $10.9 million, as compared to $5.7 million in total salary for 72 school administrators in the Lakota school district.
In the story, the listed figure for Dayton was $4.8 million.
Update: I’ve posted Sunday’s stories here at Get on the Bus after a couple of request for good links to them:
—Dayton vs. Lakota: What we learned (Sunday’s blog post about the stories)
—Lakota built when Dayton bought
—Five years filled with change for Dayton
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By sharon
May 2, 2007 9:50 PM | Link to this
Lakota is the area the top soccer kids play in and from. They come from the most elite schools and homes anywhere around so I think the neighborhood is quite well to do. It really is ridiculous to compare the two when trying to decide who earns their money more. As to whether the school administrators earn their pay, I have taught in Dayton for nearly 30 years and they don’t have enough money in the district to pay me to be a principal.By lou
May 2, 2007 9:31 PM | Link to this
Why do people say I pay your salary? Teachers and school employees do not get a tax credit. We pay taxes just like you. I guess I pay my own salary. If you think you pay my salary, I am sure I pay yours, I shop at Kroger’s, walmart, buy ford cars, go to the movies, eat out. Have I hit your job yet or must I keep going?By Oldprof
May 2, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this
Hey Hater, you’re so emotional that you’re not making sense—“move my schools to Lakota”? For your information, despite the BOE’s manic annual change of assessment rules, Dayton now ranks as the highest-performing urban school district in the state. And look, if you’re in a sparsely populated rural district full of upper-middle-class luxury homes, you’re educating the easy students, the ones who will learn vocabulary because their parents use it. Quit comparing apples and lemons—and parse what you miswrite before hitting “post your comment”.By Charterschool Hater
May 1, 2007 11:33 PM | Link to this
Hey Oldprof. Maybe the administrators in Lakota are bieng rewarded for actually educating their children. Maybe Dayton’s salaries are so low because the district rates as one of the worst in academic acheievment in the state, and therefore really should be paying us taxpayers for the priviledge, and not us paying them to mismanage. I know you will tell us that they moved up a step in the achievement game this. But remember to tell us too that the state changed the rules of the acheievement game, or Dayton would still be on the lowest rung. Let’s see if the schools continue to improve given the poor leadership on the part of the current board of ed and poor management of Dr. Mack and his low and over paid motley crew of administrators. As for the lower cost of living in West Chester, are you for real? I do a lot of business down there. The homes are gorgeous, the crime is low, the schools are good. Who wouldn’t you want to live in West Chester and send your schools to Lakota.By daddy dearest
May 1, 2007 11:22 PM | Link to this
Speaking from personal experience, Dayton does not pay its building administrators crap and expects a great deal more from them than most districts expect from their administrators. Although most of the administrators I knew in the past were not worth as much as they were paid. The problem for Mack is that he replaced many of the bad building principals with his own hires but he could not fire the old ones for fear of litigation, so now they are working in made up jobs downtown. And Old Prof I wouldn’t consider Lakota rural, West Chester is very suburban with many high end neighborhoods. I believe the Tylersville exit on I-75 is in the Lakota school district.By Mary
May 1, 2007 10:12 PM | Link to this
Oldprof, maybe since there are fewer Lakota administrators, they also work harder. Maybe they have less health benefits. Are you sure Lakota is “rural”. Maybe I have towns mixed up, but I thought Lakota was near I-75 between Dayton and Cincinnati and probably has a higher cost of living.By Oldprof
May 1, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this
While we’re doing math, what this means is that Lakota administrators earn, on average, about 5% more than those in Dayton. Considering the lower cost of living for those in the rural area, and considering that Lakota probably has more newer administrative positions (as a result of their recent growth), what would account for their higher salaries—or Dayton’s lower ones?By Mary
May 1, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this
Good, Buford, I nominate you for school board wherever you live.