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Carole Knopp Morris spent more than four decades in the Manasquan School District, spending more than half that time at the helm serving as superintendent.

Then, just months after retiring from that post, she was appointed by Gov. Corzine to serve as Monmouth County executive superintendent, a position in which she is expected to tighten the fiscal belt on education and have strict oversight on costs in individual school districts to keep the reigns on skyrocketing property taxes.

"It was a way for me to still work for children, but at the county level, instead of the district," said Morris in an interview in her Freehold office.

Morris, who resides in Neptune, is paid a $120,000-per-year salary as county executive superintendent. Salary records show she was being paid $180,178 annually when she retired as Manasquan superintendent on Jan. 1, 2007.

She was enrolled in the Teacher's Pension Annuity Fund as Manasquan superintendent, and is currently collecting a pension from that job, according to state Department of Education spokesman Richard Vespucci. She is not currently enrolled in a pension system, he said.

According to 2007 pension records, Morris receives a $134,450 annual pension.

[Freehold Ed I Tor]

"Morris is expected to tighten budgets" Is this a cruel joke?

Morris earns almost a quarter of a million dollars a year between pention and her new county executive superintendent salary.

Plus she will get another pension when she retires from her county executive superintendent position, or is my math wrong?

[Dr Oakoin]

government emplyees take care of their owen in.

hey, Is the Gov taking a salerie and pension too?

How about performance based pay, what are these employees worth then?

[Leo]

What a troll... I remember when attending school at Manasquan (when she was principal of MHS), the administration used to never allow a snow day even when the weather was ridiculous... why? Harry and Carol had a place down in Florida, and so they created a mid-winter one week school closing break so they could get down to Florida and hit the links in February every year. It has always been about her, not the kids.

Personally, I don't think she could manage a hot dog stand, let alone a school system. But why not pay her hundreds of thousands a year. Just goes to show you, it's who you know and not what you know. If you can't do, teach... if you can't teach, know the right people, and wanna fleece the system, become a school administrator!

Carol, you are a foul one!

[Lee Roi Speedy]

Dr Oakoin wrote:

government emplyees take care of their owen in.
hey, Is the Gov taking a salerie and pension too?
How about performance based pay, what are these employees worth then?

Dr. O
You mean~
employees
own
salary or Valerie?
<snark>