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Remainders: In the salary wars, Joel Klein beats David Paterson

  • Chancellor Joel Klein is making a lot more money than Governor David Paterson. (Politics K-12)
  • The DOE’s charter school office chief Michael Duffy is leaving to join Victory Schools. (WSJ)
  • The city wants the Panel for Educational Policy to give up some of its limited power. (City Room, GS)
  • How did the Columbus Secondary School principal get tenure if principal tenure doesn’t exist? (Chaz)
  • Rotherham thinks the Times’ NCLB-forced-out-a-good-principal story is simplistic. (Eduwonk)
  • Valerie Grey is the State Education Department’s new COO. (NYSED)
  • Doug Lemov describes great teachers as great problem-solvers. (FlypaperEducation Next)
  • Head Start programs could be in for a rude awakening, funding-wise. (Early Ed Watch)
  • NBC’s Education Nation convention is public-service meets marketing. (Sacramento Bee)
  • A Berkeley playwright is making a school board the setting for a culture war. (Times)
  • Charter schools may be hurting middle-class kids’ scores because they don’t focus on tests. (Flypaper)
  • ASTRAKA

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    When and where did Klein succeed in management and governance? Can someone please provide examples of his past success that will justify Klein’s salary?

  • ASTRAKA

    With regards to the following statement: Eli Broad said it best when he described his close ties to Klein, in a public interview with The Economist: “We don’t know anything about how to teach or reading curriculum or any of that. But what we do know about is management and governance.”

    When and where did Klein succeed in management and governance? Can someone please provide examples of his past success that will justify Klein’s salary?

  • I noticed that…

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Joel Klein is getting more money under the table…Bloombucks!

  • Mustafa

    If people should get what they’re worth, than Joel Klein should be giving the city back $100,000.

  • http://incongressional.com Esteban Rodriguez

    I wrote about this a few months ago on incongressional.com complete with an infographic.

    If you think that Klein’s salary is out of whack look at charter school superintendents.

    http://www.incongressional.com/state-of-the-arts-charts-on-charters/

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