!In article “Supt. Rivera’s big pay day” is subheaded “ [Pedro] Rivera recently signed a five-year contract extension worth more than $200,000 annually”.
The editor’s concede “…superintendents in two other districts – Hempfield and Manheim Township – are paid more.”
”Rivera no doubt feels he earns his pay, and it’s hard to disagree. SDL with 11,000 students and a $71 million budget, is the largest district in the county. It’s an urban district, too, one that faces the challenge of a diverse student population and poverty.”
But then then the editors show their true colors, stated by Karl Marx as: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
They conclude: “But it’s also a district with a declining tax base, and that means less taxpayer money to go around for employee salaries, among other things.
“The SDL school board majority either failed to recognize this fact or they ignored it.”
In other words, the needs of the public trump market considerations. So either highly competent Riviera should accept less than he deserves or go work for some capitalistic school system. The School District of Lancaster then can spend a quarter of a million dollars searching for a mediocre replacement who will work for less and likely bring back the bad old days.
The School District of Lancaster has enough problems without following the advice of Karl Marx… and the New Era.
Maybe if Penn Square Partners would pay the rightffully owed real estate taxes on the Marriott Hotel in downtown Lancaster, the School District taxpayers would get a break!!!!!