Between transportation, other expenses, and monthly minimum student loan payments of $ 800 to $ 1,000 (all on
a single salary budget), we struggled to keep our heads above water.
Not exact matches
Recall Cuomo's 2011 - 12
budget address in which he
singled out superintendents — particularly Syosset's Carole Hankin, whose more than $ 500,000 in
salary and benefits is the highest in the state — as a prime example of wasteful spending by school districts.
Salaries and benefits account for roughly 80 % of a district's
budget; as the
single largest item, its a clear area to look for cost savings or, more accurately, cost efficiencies.
But ambiguous actions like «provide for effective teacher hiring and recruitment... and retention practices» leaves one wondering if this is just a euphemism for
salary and benefit increases (at the same time the district is offering every
single parcel of «excess» property it owns for sale in an effort to balance it's huge
budget deficit, really?).