Monday, May 5, 2008

Should the Escambia County School District Publicize Employees’ Salaries?

Yesterday, The PNJ published an opinion piece by Escambia County School Board Representative Jeff Bergosh, in which he recommends deep budget cuts for the school district.

In order to achieve these cuts, Bergosh thinks the school board should consider cutting top jobs at the administrative level. This would include the employees that work directly with Superintendent Jim Paul.

Bergosh suggests the public should have some input on which jobs are cut. To do this, he thinks employees’ salaries should be posted on the school district’s website.

Bergosh’s reasoning is: “Transparency is the key, and if we are not top heavy, showing this list of positions, salaries, travel and benefits may alleviate the public's concerns. Not being forthcoming with this information will do the opposite.”

My inner-cynic thinks Bergosh just wants to use the public outcry about high salaries as political cover for the school board to enact the budget cuts at the top-levels of the school district’s administration. Does the public really need to know what these people are making in order for the school board to make cuts? Shouldn’t this be their job?

Plus, what does the public know about staffing a school district? Do we know the exact number of employees that are needed to keep the school district running? Do we know how much their employees should make? I sure don’t.

Divulging the salaries of all school district employees seems a little intrusive to me; they’re not elected officials. Why should the public have the right to know how much they make?

Let’s leave the salary debate to the school board.

17 comments:

jeeperman said...

it is already public info upon request. Posting a searchable database on a website only jumps over the fredom of information act request obstacles.
How does one know when you have too many administrators without cutting some?
If some were cut, maybe Mr. Paul could not be on the road so much.

Chris Olson said...

I now see that the salaries have been made public.

My post was mostly meant to question the intentions of Mr. Bergosh. I was also questioning the role of the public in deciding if there should be job cuts at the administrative level.

jeeperman said...

I don't think Bergosh implied that the public would be deciding.
But that the public would have an idea of how heavy the admin costs are on the district. And the admin and school board would have to explain to the public what all they do and why they are needed.
Other wise we just take it for granted that what might be fat is not fat.

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