Meeting attendees at Burke High School this week had the right idea concerning balancing the budget of the Charleston County School District. Naturally, the P&C's reporter pegged them as "confused."
Why outsource day-porters for savings? After all, they are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to compensation.
A much better idea would be to outsource our expensive administration.
That's right: privatize the superintendent and her cadre. Imagine how much money could be saved!
Who doesn't believe a private company could run the district more efficiently with less money?
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
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Eliminating the top 26 positions would save over $3,000,000 in base salaries alone, not including benefits and perks which would be another half million, at least. Outsourcing half of these (13 positions) and shutting down the other half (13 more) could save at least one and a half million dollars. That doesn't begin to measure the savings in bureaucratic aggrivation from doing away with useless positions like community engagement directors.
The next 70 positions together represent a total base salary of $5,500,000. That's not counting benefits and none of these or the others (96 in all) highest paid positions at CCSD are teachers. Cut half of these, with benefits, and we could save another $3,000,000. That would be a savings of nearly $5 million. Almost too good to be true. Just don't expect McGinley to cut her palace guard. To her, line workers and teachers are expendible.
Highest paid teacher in the district makes $68,000, not including James Island Charter where someone told me there is some funny math going on...
Also understand that the Post adn Courier does not have completely accurate numbers (some folks get more)
A very insightful post on outsourcing. Thanks for sharing.
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