Rotten Apple Award Week 2 Winner – Lake Travis ISD
This week’s Rotten Apple Award Winner is Lake Travis ISD.
Lake Travis ISD’s superintendent makes $252,799 per year (base salary) and the three asst. super’s make $131,750, $127,500 and $126,000. There are several (14) either Directors, Exec. Dir. or Senior Dir. making $101,000 down to $75,000.
One elementary school principal makes $81,097 per year, while one third grade teacher who has been teaching 30+ years earns just $63,086 per year, and one kindergarten teacher who has been teaching for 20+ years earns just $52,706 per year. Enrollment is just over 6,000 with one high school, two middle schools and five elementary schools.
The High school football coach makes $117,550 per year, and one of the elementary school librarians makes $66,234 per year. The Dir. of Food & Nutrition makes $77,539… if they outsourced this service to ARAMARK or Sodexho the directors would make about $50,000 per year.
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About Eliza Vielma
Legislative Affairs & New Media - Americans for Prosperity Texas
The super’s salary sounds pretty high for this size district. However, some of the other numbers don’t sound so out of line. For example:
1) The 3 asst super’s are in essence and executive level job. Most executives make way more than these salaries in corporate America.
2) Don’t forget that teachers get those salaries for in essence less than 9 months work per year. They get summers off as well as several 1-2 week breaks throughout the year. Do you get 3-4 months off at your job?
3) The football coach mentioned presides over arguably the most successful high school football team in the nation. Can you name any other 4-time consecutive state champion high schools out there? Do you know how many past players are now on D1 scholarships at universities?
4) Outsourcing the food services leads to poor quality if not outright dangerous meals being provided to kids. There have been numerous high profile news stories about low quality food, unsafe food, and unsafe food handling practices at public schools throughout the nation. Many schools districts investigated couldn’t even provide the names of the food suppliers they used when the FDA was trying to track down the source of several food poisoning incidents. So at LTISD, this is handled by local, employees of the district that in some cases have kids in these schools. I believe that leads to a far higher level of commitment to our kids safety and nutrition.
5) and to the comment left by Pat, HUH?? You are trying to compare the ratio of teaching staff to non teaching staff of LTIS with one form other mysterious, unnamed districts STUDENT to TEACHER ratio. Ever heard of apples to oranges? Maybe if you had gone to an LTISD school in your formative years….