Texan legislators and propaganda groups, representing the statutory schools, severely criticized the tiny network of charter school schools, which paid its warden up to $ 870,000 annually, making it one of the highest paid heads of state schools in the country.
Criticism came after Prapublica and Texas Tribune published a story about Valer’s public schools, showing that the district only reported that it was paying for Salvador Kavazos, less than $ 300,000 a year. Really, bonuses and disposable payments are three times its income To manage an area that has less than 1000 students in three campuses.
Legislators raised history during the court of the Texas House Committee on March 6 to discuss how much financing the state should provide traditional public and statutory schools in the coming years. Legislators have repeatedly pressed Brida Adams, Vice -President on State Affairs in the Texas Association of State Statutes, Kavazos’s compensation and asked why the statutory schools need additional state financing if they use it for high administrator payment.
“You received a report in Texas Tribune today about one of your boys who earn $ 800,000 a year,” said State Representative John Briant, Democrat from Dallas. “None of our caretakers at the public level, who have 100,000, 150,000 children, do something close to that.”
State Representative Terry Leo Wilson, Republican outside Houston, who previously worked at the State Council for Texas Education, called Kavazos bonuses “inappropriate, unheard of, flamboyant.”
In response, Adams said his organization also opposed the high compensation of the head. He distributed copies of the letter that the Charter Association sent three members of the State School Council, which states that they should pay the coffee. The association stated that rarely calls into question the actions of the area, but described the additional $ 500,000 to reward the Cavaz, except for the annual salary as “completely leaving the alignment” with the market. The letter called on the school council to tie the bonuses of Kavaz to certain indicators.
“This behavior will discard the shadow over the public school system in Texas and can harm TPCSA’s ability to act on behalf of their members and students they serve,” the members of the Association Board wrote January 22 letter.
The association sent a letter to Valere, learning about the conclusions of the editorial staff, but before the publication of the article. Prapublica and Tribune also shared that two more charter school systems pay for their executives hundreds of thousands of dollars in excess of their basic salaries. The association did not answer questions about whether it also addressed these schools.
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A strong public repair repair of Kavazos takes place as leaders of traditional state and statutory schools that lobby for more money after years without increasing their basic financing. This impetus has strengthened, given the constant efforts of legislators to implement a program similar to the voucher of this legislative session that would allow parents to use taxpayers to send children to private schools. Experts of legislative budgets have found that it could Take money from public schools. Texas Gueta Governor Greg Abbot stands for the vouchers’ program.
Because the statutory schools are considered public, not private, lawmakers ask whether taxpayers can be sure that additional costs for public education will go to students’ needs, not on the pockets of administrators such as Cavazos.
Members of the Council of State Schools Valere did not give a direct response to the concern to the legislators about the payment of Kavazos in response to the questions of information organizations this week. They also wrote that they did not respond to the letter of the Charter Association and stated that the association had no normative bodies and other bodies over Valer. “
Kavazos refused several interview requests. The members of the Council defended their compensation, explaining that he was also the CEO of the charter network, and his contribution justifies his salary. Participants also stated that the “significant” part of the Cavaza compensation comes from private donations, but they do not provide evidence confirming their requirements.
Bridant, a Dallas spokesman, said in an interview that the actions of state schools Valer show why the state needs stronger supervision of the statutory schools.
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He said the legislators should strengthen the current requirements for Texas’ reporting. The agency provides for the districts to post all supervisory compensations and benefits on their site or in an annual report. The districts should also send information about the annual salary of the chief and any additional payments for additional obligations to the state directly, but the state education agency did not specify if this includes bonuses. It said that the editorial boards did not check whether the first requirements correspond to the districts unless a potential violation was indicated.
“We have to invest it in the law they have to inform about it, and that there is a fine for what it will not do,” Brianant said. “Otherwise, this will continue to be dark.”
Texas Education Agency did not answer questions that submit after the legislative hearings on the current supervision of the state’s authorized schools and compensation to the heads. Also, the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Dastin Berrous or Lieutenant Dan Patrick, who has identified legislative priorities for state legislators.
ABBott Press Socialist Andrew Mahaleris has sent a written statement to information organizations that catch school districts conducting the state funding for “administrative bloating instead of the teachers they work and the students they serve”. Abbot will work with legislators to provide public dollars to “students and teachers, not systems and overpayed administrators,” the Maleris wrote. He did not mention specific accounts and decisions.
Legislators submitted at least five bills during this legislative session that would limit the salaries of executives, but most would not resort to the vast majority of Kavazos’s compensation, since the proposals do not limit the bonuses.
State Representative Kerry Isaac, a Republican, representing the county between Austin and San Antonio, has filed a proposal that limits the fee to the executives no more than twice as much as a high-level teacher in the school district. Isaac’s current proposal does not take into account bonuses. Upon learning of the method of the Valere School Council on the reward of coffee paid payments on the over -the -top salary, she said that “absolutely” openly to revise the bill to include bonuses.
“I don’t see any justification for this,” Isaac said in an interview. “I would like to see the guards who continue their role because of the dedication of students’ success, not a means of providing this excess salary.”
Despite resonance by lawmakers and experts in the school sector and outside the charter, Valere’s Council still stood behind its decisions. Asked if there are any current plans to make changes to the pay, which Kavazos receives at the top of his basic salary, the council sent a one-off answer:
“No”
