[Winona Online Democracy]
In response to Mike Kirschman's questions:
1. "Do salary numbers you report include private, charter, and parochial
schools?"
No, I gave mean figures for public schools only. Some private schools pay
higher salaries than public schools. Of schools belonging the National
Association of Independent Schools, the average salary of a head of school
in the 2002-2003 year (the last year for which data were available) was
$128,004. The highest salary was $285,415. But the lowest was $30,052.
Although some private independent schools do pay teachers more than public
school teachers), most provide lower salaries.
The mean salaries in 2002-2003 of teachers in non-parochial private schools
accredited by National Association of Independent Schools was $38,000, which
is lower than the mean salaries of public school teachers in many states.
Mean basic public school teacher salaries in 2002-2003 ranged from $53,280
in New Jersey (the following year, Connecticut, with 56,516, California and
New York passed New Jersey for the top spots) to $30,890 ($33,236 the next
year, still the lowest) in North Dakota. The mean in the United States for
that year was $45,578; the next year it was $46,597. Minnesota in 2003-2004
ranked 19th, with $45,010. Although no salary source is perfect, the best
for public school teachers seems to be supplied by the American Federation
of Teachers.
Parochial schools pay far less to their teachers. A good example is New
York City, in which the beginning regular salary (exclusive of special
additions) is $39,000 in public schools and $26,000 in parochial schools. At
top salary schedules the differences are more notable, with public schools
giving over $81,000 in basic salary and parochial schools giving barely
$40,000.
I do not know salaries of private schools or charter schools in Winona
County or adjacent areas. Can anyone supply information?
2. "How do differences in pay among types of schools compare to student
learning outcomes?"
Many questions in education carry such strong political and ideological
baggage that clear findings are impossible to uncover, and the problem is
especially complex in relating pay to student achievement, given valid
measurement problems and differences among students, parents, locales etc.
There is no uncontested evidence that, other things being equal, pay
differences between public schools and private counterparts can be related
to student outcomes. There is no doubt that by measurement of entry to elite
universities, occupational choice, and income in life, graduates of schools
affiliated with the Independent Schools do much better than average public
school graduates. But they are select students, usually with strong parental
support and interest. (After all, parents pay from $10,000 to $20,000 yearly
tuition.) I suspect that their counterparts in public schools, even though
constituting a minority except in the most affluent suburbs, do just as well
in life.
Perhaps a better measurement may be differences in graduation rates between
parochial and public schools in the same area. In New York City's inner-city
Bedford-Stuyvesant and South Bronx, parochial schools have a 99 percent high
school graduation rate and public schools have a 68% rate. Again, these
figures must be taken with some qualifications, but it should be pointed out
that parochial schools in the city do accept many problem students.
3. "Do numbers you report differentiate between district or individual
school size?"
No. I provided overall figures. Superintendents in large districts make more
than those in small districts. For example, according to data supplied by
the Educational Research Service (http://www.ers.org/), during the 2003-2004
school year salaries of superintendents of districts with 25,000 or more
students averaged $174,805. Districts with 10,000 to 24,999 students
averaged $140,435. Districts with 2,500 to 9,999 students averaged $117,839.
Districts of 300 to 2,499 averaged $96,387. In many large districts,
businesses have supplemented salaries when state law allows such
supplements. Moreover, various fringe benefits-car expense or outright
provision of car), club membership, etc-are common in contracts in large
districts but not as popular in smaller districts. Fringe benefits often
comprise 25 percent of salary. Payment to superintendents in large
districts is rising quickly, much to the annoyance of teacher organizations
and many citizen groups. Those supporting higher salaries, however, compare
the superintendent's responsibilities to those of large business heads and
argue that the supply of highly competent administrators falls below the
demand. One of the highest overall incomes currently received is that of the
superintendent of Miami-Dade, Rudy Crew. His income will rise to $540,000 a
year in 2008, and includes a car, generous retirement benefits, and a home
loan that will be liquidated if he remains on the job for 4 years.
Roy Nasstrom
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Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Winona] School Administrators/NPR bias
Thank you for finding and sharing the information Roy.
Let me go out on a limb here and suggest that perhaps we're still missing
a couple of large and important pieces of the salary question in this
discussion. Please feel free to correct me if my reasoning is wrong.
Do the salary numbers you report include private, charter, and parochial
schools?
For example, and on a local level particularly, what do public school
teachers, administrators, and principals earn when compared to private,
charter, or parochial teachers, administrators, and principals?
And perhaps more importantly, how do the differences in pay among types of
systems compare to student learning outcomes?
Do the numbers you report differentiate between district or individual
school size?
In other words, should a principal of a school with 200 students earn the
same as a principal of a school with 1400? Shouldn't we ask the same
question when we're talking about district sizes and Superintendent
salaries?
Mike Kirschmann
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Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Winona] School Administrators/NPR bias
[Winona Online Democracy]
Some data may be helpful in comparing teachers' and school
administrators' salaries. According to the latest survey of the
Department of Labor, in May 2004, elementary and secondary school
administrators in the United States had a median annual earnings of
$74,190.A survey by the Educational Research Service, indicated higher
salaries. According to the ERS, salaries in the 2004-2005 school year
were as follows:
Senior high principals $82,225; jr. high/middle school principals
$78,160; elementary school principals, $74,062. Respective salaries for
assistant principals were $68,945, $66,319, and $63,398. Given the
responsibilities these administrators have, the salaries appear low, but
they reflect local values and fiscal capacity.
According to the latest survey of the American Federation of Teachers
(whose data is used by the U. S. Department of Labor), the median salary
of public school teachers in the United States in 2003-2004 was $45,597.
This figure excluded income for extra duties.
Local school superintendents' salaries vary widely, but outside a handful
of major cities, few top administrators receive four times the salary of
teachers. Superintendents do tend to be the most highly paid of all local
(and a vast majority of state) officials, but the difference between
their salaries and those of their employees is not comparable to the
sometimes astronomical differences in private business.
Roy Nasstrom
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Winona] School Administrators/NPR bias
[Winona Online Democracy]
I think Bryon is talking about dollars in the private sector. He states
at
the end of his post that school administrators in Minnesota (not in
charter
schools, however) are making about 4 to 1 over the average teacher
salary.
That's probably correct. His statements about private sector top
administrator salary compared to the "worker bee" pay is pretty accurate
too.
-Leslie Hittner
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Winona] School Administrators/NPR bias
[Winona Online Democracy]
I think he was speaking of the number of administrators (principals)
for
each teacher within the district--we are talking about people, not
dollars
:)!! That's the heart of the problem--if it's only about the bottom
line
dollar and not about the quality of the product, we'll never be talking
about the same thing. I'm sure we can operate a school district with
less
and less over the years, but at what point does it become a school
district
that produces little of value and why in the world would that be our
goal?
Kathy Seifert
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:56 PM
Subject: FW: [Winona] School Administrators/NPR bias
[Winona Online Democracy]
Bryon
Are we missing something from your post?
460 to 1 or in real dollars Administrators are making $13.8 million
dollars
if the teacher is paid $30,000 or even $1.38 million using 46 to 1?
Even your ratio of 4 to 1 I find hard to believe. Maybe the
Minneapolis
or
St. Paul school district superintendents in the Twin Cities are pulling
those ratios but not in Greater Minnesota.
Paul Double
Behalf Of Bothuns
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:25 PM
[Winona Online Democracy]
I'm sorry, but when I read somewhere that the solution to our education
problems is simply to cut spending, on anything, I just have to laugh,
and
then cry. Right now countries like Colombia, Malaysia and Hungry
already
outspend the US on Education as a percentage of GDP. No disrespect
intended, but should we assume that it is OK to come in behind those
countries and still claim to be the leaders of the free world?
When the average Principal to Teacher pay ratio hits 460 to 1, as it is
in
the private sector, or perhaps just 46 to 1, like it was in the US
private
sector just 20 years ago, then I'll get interested in cutting
administrative
expenditures. Right now it stands at about 4 to 1 in Minnesota which
clearly implies that it needs to go up not down.
Bryon Bothun
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