Michigan schools provide ‘lucrative’ pay and benefits despite status
By TOM GANTERT
Michigan Capitol Confidential
As superintendent of Kalamazoo Public Schools, Michael Rice had a total compensation of $321,252 in 2010.
Yet Rice was one of a dozen public school superintendents who signed a letter criticizing charter public schools and raising the “for-profit” status of some of the charter school’s contracted management companies.
The teachers in Rice’s district make an average [...]
Gov. Lingle and Her Administrators Detail Hawaii’s Revenue Shortfalls
Governor’s team explains Hawaii’s Top Fiscal Problems: Medicaid, Jobs and Unfunded Employee Benefit Funds to Senate Ways and Means committee – and offers solutions
By Laura Brown, 3/19/2010 9:41:59 AM
Gov. Linda Lingle — in what she described as “the most important meeting of the legislative session” – testified with members of her administration Thursday before the [...]
State worker benefit fund near insolvency – Legislative mismanagement blamed
State worker benefit fund near insolvency – Legislative mismanagement blamed
Posted by Scott “The Piper” St. Clair – March 12, 2010
Legislative mismanagement of the state worker benefit fund has put it close to insolvency. It’s so bad – a $197 million projected deficit – that the Insurance Commissioner’s office said that it if it were a [...]
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