PHOTO CREDIT: Shutterstock LOS ANGELES (AP) — California teachers earned an average of about $85,000 per year in salary and benefits last year, while 100 superintendents made more than $250,000 each, according to data provided by hundreds of school districts statewide. The information appears in a new database released online that allows users to search and download detailed employee compensation figures for superintendents, teachers, principals and other staff members at school districts, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The numbers are part of Transparent California, which compiles compensation data for a variety of public sector employees. The education section of the website has more than 581,000 individual compensation records from last year for about two-thirds of districts statewide. It is operated by the California Policy Center, a Tustin-based, nonpartisan think tank. The center submitted Public Records Act requests with more than 1,058 school systems, but have so far only received data from 653, Jordan Bruneau, a spokesman for the center, told the Times. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest system in the nation, has yet to provide the documents. The public votes on tax measures, bond measures without complete knowledge about how the money is being spent, said Ed Ring, the centers executive director. Taxpayers are paying these salaries so they have a right to know. Read more on the KFI News Blog Read more: kfiam640/onair/n-a-37487/database-details-california-school-employee-pay-12604901/#ixzz38buWlM19
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 21:00:20 +0000
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