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American
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Plainedge school district in didn't pass the budget a few years back. The students raised $500,00.00 to keep their sports programs because the district didn't have the money, so they said. Coincidentally, the board voted to give themselves a bonus of, ready?,,,$500,00.00! And, the schiester we had for a superintendant then transferred to the infamous Roslyn school district. So, do we need all these 'officials'? I think not. VOTE FOR A BUDGET WE CAN AFFORD OR VOTE NO! LET US KEEP OUR HOMES!
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LI Yat
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Thanks, NEWSDAY, for this article, and others exposing the bloated administrative costs, due partly to the large number of small school districts on Long Island. Tax payers should be irate and demand reform in the form of consolidating districts. Only then will the taxes flow more directly into the classrooms and to the benefit of the children.
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next year
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with all this great reporting and uncovering many disturbing facts, nearly EVERY school district will pass its inflated budgets again next year. LI voters are led very easily.
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LIer
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next year wrote: with all this great reporting and uncovering many disturbing facts, nearly EVERY school district will pass its inflated budgets again next year. LI voters are led very easily. Sorta like sheep being shorn.
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Mike from Syosset
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LI teachers always carry on about how hard thier 9 month work year is, NYC teachers do the same job for 1/2 the pay. The LI administrators and teachers are the ones killing the economy on LI, let alone thier salaries but the benefit packages exceed most Fotune 500 companies.
If LI schools paid closer to the rest of the countries salaries our school taxes would be reduced almost 40%!!!
Let them all quit, teachers are waiting in line 10 deep to replace them at a proper salery rate. All of these adminstrator positions should be capped and the rediculous pensions should be eliminated. If they need retirement money let them save it like the rest of us have to do.
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secob
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next year wrote: with all this great reporting and uncovering many disturbing facts, nearly EVERY school district will pass its inflated budgets again next year. LI voters are led very easily. slaughtered is a better metaphor.
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exislander
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Long Islanders love to pay high taxes because they keep voting YES for higher school budgets. They are voting themselves right out of their homes. Such a shame. Not too long ago, Long Island was a nice affordable place to live.
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makeitstop
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All these people may say publicly that they welcome reform, blah, blah, blah. But, this very small, closed group of academically limited but incredibly arrogant individuals will never let anything change. They move around from town to town in a twisted game of musical chairs with millions from the public's pockets. And who is the constant in all of this, always in the background moving the chess pieces in these districts and providing advice, as board members and administrators come and go?
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ebenezer scrooge
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If you notice, it isn't the students or the teachers ( younger ones) making the killing, it is the administrators that sit on their @sses all day long that are making the killing. Long Island needs to come up with a plan to eliminate some of these administrative positions so that the money can be put towards the classrooms. Vote No to Administrators, Vote Yes to Our Children.
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dpann
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About time Newsday got to one of the biggest abuses in our school system. Of an 8.6 Billion dollar budget Long Island spends over 1 BILLION DOLLARS on school administration...Newsday did fail to point that dollar figure out and failed to point out WHERE do these administrators work ? We the taxpayers pay for office space and full secretarial staffs , pensions and benefits. We don't need 124 school districts and certainly cant afford the current 8.6 billion dollars to educate our children especially when the rest of the country does it for about HALF per student then what we spend. This system invites corruption as to many hands in the billion dollar pool is far to tempting and has proven to be as how many school administrators are in JAIL ? and how many more being investigated or audited ?
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Dennis Crosby Ret FDNY
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someone should check their figures.LI does not make twice what the city teachers make. the biggest reason for high taxes is not the teachers it lies with the school boards who hire the administrators to run treir districts.it also lies with the county budget#1 police, county work force,3 supervisors to one worker? and the special districts over paid administrators
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truth
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Nassau BOCES has 84 administrators in their administrators union. 84. All paid for collectively by the 56 Nassau school districts. And some aren't even doing administrative duties. Is anyone, DA, AG, FBI, PTA, etc ever going to take a hard look at this place that spends quarter billion of our money each year. Over 10 million in no bid contracts and some contracts without any contracts- figure that one out. Follow the money!!!
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ready to leave
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The poli-tricks of educators on Long Island is just as bad, if not worse than the poli-tricks of the politicians.
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I am shocked
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As a politican I am shocked! Appalled! I was also shocked the last time Newsday published their salaries! Re-elect me and I will be shocked the next time Newsday publishes their salaries as over $500,000.00 a year. I am shock! But if re-elected I will be shocked the next time Newsday publishes their salaries as over $600,000.00 a year. I am shock! But if re-elected I will be shocked the next time Newsday publishes their salaries as over $900,000.00 a year. I am shocked!
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State Employees
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Use the Dowling model. Make all teachers and administrators State employees. Reduce taxes 45 - 50 %.
Why isn't Nesday supporting this idea? Is it in bed with the teachers and administrators unions too?
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amazed
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It never ceases to amaze me how powerful unions and politicians control and rob the very people they are hired to protect. We the taxpayers thats right TAXPAYERS the ones PAYING the salaries have NO say in teachers pay or administrator pay and if we vote down a budget where do they take the dollars from ???? our kids programs HELLO did everyone forget WHY they are there to begin with for the KIDS not the teachers not the administrators the kids, talk about insanity . So lets recap the payers the ones with the money paying basically have NO say on how our money is spent seems fair where do I sign up oh thats right I'm already signed up without my permission.
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holy smoke
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All upper levels are in bed together, wakeup I have been saying this for along time, I fight with my relatives
that are teachers, I ask them do they feel anything bad about the school budgets...Their reply is "ask me again when I am on my cruse" and you go the local beach". Hey they keep passing the budget, I have to do the right thing and spend it.
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Teddy R
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Mike from Syosset wrote: LI teachers always carry on about how hard thier 9 month work year is, NYC teachers do the same job for 1/2 the pay. The LI administrators and teachers are the ones killing the economy on LI, let alone thier salaries but the benefit packages exceed most Fotune 500 companies.
If LI schools paid closer to the rest of the countries salaries our school taxes would be reduced almost 40%!!!
Let them all quit, teachers are waiting in line 10 deep to replace them at a proper salery rate. All of these adminstrator positions should be capped and the rediculous pensions should be eliminated. If they need retirement money let them save it like the rest of us have to do. Mike - read the article, for the luvva pete. It ain't about the teachers, mate. It's about the $328 K/year (which isn't even the full cost of her compensation package when you include perqs, btw) that Carol Hankin & her klingons in the Syo district continue to collect to do jobs that are redundant with the dozens of other highly-compensated district superintendants and their district admin overheads. This is all money that doesn't go to the classrooms. Consolidate the school districts in NC, eliminate the massive waste in district overheads, see how that slashes your tax bill, and then you can still get chippy about what teachers are being paid, if you feel it necessary.
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Realist
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I agree with you 100%. Consolidation and elimination of the duplicate administrators is critical. VOTE NO on your school budget. You'll find that it won't effect education but it will begin to send the message. dpann wrote: About time Newsday got to one of the biggest abuses in our school system. Of an 8.6 Billion dollar budget Long Island spends over 1 BILLION DOLLARS on school administration...Newsday did fail to point that dollar figure out and failed to point out WHERE do these administrators work ? We the taxpayers pay for office space and full secretarial staffs , pensions and benefits. We don't need 124 school districts and certainly cant afford the current 8.6 billion dollars to educate our children especially when the rest of the country does it for about HALF per student then what we spend. This system invites corruption as to many hands in the billion dollar pool is far to tempting and has proven to be as how many school administrators are in JAIL ? and how many more being investigated or audited ?
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Kyle Murphy
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JOHN HILDEBRAND has always had it in for Long Island teachers. He wants to live in his million dollar home and get his benefits from Newsday, but he doesn't want teachers to be able to afford to live in his own neighborhood or on Long Island for that matter. The problem with muckrackers is that most of the muck sticks to them.
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