[geeks] Teachers

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>
>Date: 2007/09/10 Mon AM 08:55:56 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Teachers

>" From: wa2egp at att.net
>" 
>" > You know, I'd like to see a law requiring that school administration,
>" > school superintendents, and school board members be paid no more, and
>" > receive no more paid benefits, than the lowest-paid "full time" teacher
>" > in their district.
>" > 
>" > I suspect that'd change a few things.
>
>digression - i found it fascinating that bolivian law specifies that
>no public employee can be paid more than el presidente -- so when the
>new socialist-people's-party-elect put his money where his mouth was
>and only drew an average worker's wage, everyone else in the gov had
>to also!  savings to the national budget were noticeable.
>
>sad - but a reflection of human nature - that this sort of responsible
>politician is newsworthy.
>
>" Include teach a class or two so they don't lose that sense of what it's
>" all about. :)

US law is similar - no Federal employee can make more than the President, but the law in the US is written that if the President refuses a salary (as several have in the past, IIRC), everyone else in Gov't still gets paid (the law hinges on pay SCALE, not actual pay I guess)...

Lionel