Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in the state and among the top in the nation.

Valere Public Schools Superintendent Salvador Cavazos’ compensation to run three campuses in Austin, Corpus Christi and Brownsville exceeds the less than $450,000 that New York City’s chancellor makes to run the largest school system in the country.

But Cavazos’ salary looks far more modest in publicly posted records that are supposed to provide transparency to taxpayers. That’s because Valere excludes most of his bonuses from its reports to the state and on its own website, instead only sharing his base pay of about $300,000.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Get ready. If the “school voucher” plan passes, you’re going to see a lot more of this.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago

All according to plan. /s

And Republican voters will continue to stick their heads in the sand as we all get robbed.

Wake up, y'all. Politicians aren't your friends. And if they are, ask them what they're doing to prevent your tax dollars going to the wealthiest people in America, because they're robbing you in broad daylight.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Hopefully we can close another school so we can feed another lazy ass asshole all of our free money.