Meanwhile, HCSD has a number of people with impressive titles and more impressive salaries. Gossips' source provided these salary figures, with the caveat, "These numbers are old and don't include bonuses and rent."
- Superintendent of Schools—$190,000
- Executive Director of Teaching and Learning—$150,000
- Executive Director of Engagement and Student Support—$144,200
- Executive Director of Human Services—$140,000
- Manager of Instructional Technology—$146,675
- Director of Student Services/Special Education—$130,000
- Executive Director of Business and Finance—$148,000
If you find any of this distressing, remember there are three seats on the HCSD Board of Education up for election this year. Prospective nominees must have a primary residence in the Hudson City School District and be registered voters. Becoming a candidate requires at least 100 signatures from residents of the school district on a nominating petition. To obtain a petition, contact the District Clerk by email at districtclerk@hudsoncsd.org or call 518 828-4360, ext. 2101. According to the HCSD website, completed petitions are due to the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1, 2024. Obviously, this page of the website hasn't been updated since last year. Gossips' information is that petitions must be submitted on April 30. It's best to confirm due date with the District Clerk when you request your petitions.
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Well at least the administration can afford to send their kids to private school
ReplyDeleteRent?! The overpaid and over-fed managerial failures receive a rent stipend on top of their bloated salaries?! I’m beginning to think tar and feathers are suitable for these “executives” and “educators.” A majority of the BoE should be similarly treated.
ReplyDeleteIt’s beyond insane. I think the last couple times when they were doing the job search for a new superintendent it’s mentioned that the full compensation package is near $300K. And people get worked up with wanting to pay an experienced city manager half that
DeleteSo that’s your solution? Tar and feathers? Even tongue in cheek it’s very disturbing you went straight there.
DeleteYes, I’m really suggesting they be tarred and feathered. Then ridden out of town on a rail. And if they come back, lock them in the stocks in 7th Street Park. Honestly. Wanna buy a bridge?
DeleteLet's contact Musk and have DOGE come in where it is really needed!
ReplyDeleteHonors classes separate better performing students from the underperforming ones. Some might say this is segregation and special, unequal treatment. Having everyone mixed in the same classes is more equal and the better performers can help to lift the underperformers up. On the other hand, the reverse could be true, and the underperformers could drag the better performing students down. Posing the question to my son, who is in honors classes in the 10th grade at Hudson High, he was of the opinion that the latter was true and this was a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteFolks, this is serious money, and even more serious business: the education of our next generation. More people need to care. More people need to object to spending over $30,000 per child--two-thirds of whom are reading below grade level. And more people need to understand -- yes, UNDERSTAND! please! -- that it is not the fault of our teachers or the parents of the children (you've heard of blaming the victims?) for these scandalous reading scores (which are the motors of the school to prison pipeline!). It's the fault of those four six-figured salaried administrators and the 7-member board of education that hired them. The right people can fix this literacy debacle in two years! You want to blame poverty? Don't. Plenty of schools with such demographics -- poor kids! -- as ours do quite well on reading scores (and math), which, sorry to report, translate to future success. So please don't blame the victims. Demand that the board of education educate our kids. Demand that the administrators running our schools use curricula and pedagogies backed up by readily available research. Please pay attention to the upcoming vote for the Board. --peter meyer
ReplyDeleteCutting programs that help students become more successful seems to be a standard procedure for HCSD. The only people who suffer are the students.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to press the salary freeze for administrators for the upcoming year. If they mean "they are here for the kids" then put up or shut up.
DeleteHCSD is a $ pit. Bottomless at that. And not just the kids suffer. Parents and community lose out on brilliant minds. This culture of “not profits” will save us is like feeding wild animals- they won’t learn how to feed themselves and then bite the hand that feeds them and thus be tossed aside. Do more with less HCSD.
ReplyDeleteWhen HCSD hit this money crunch 15 years ago the entire administrative staff declined their contractual pay raises.
ReplyDeleteHCSD is a mafia like extortion racket ...
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the Director of DEI.
ReplyDeleteVery few people go to BOE meetings (although a multitude may be on line.). A handful of people went to the public hearing on the school budget last spring at the library. Doesn’t seem to be much interest as your taxes increase ( only $4 dollars a month haha). That’s the spin they put on it.
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