CCSD School Board Pay About Time and Money

Maybe now some middle-class folks can serve on school boards.

"Members of the Charleston County School Board could soon make $9,600 a year under a bill that recently passed a key vote in the South Carolina House of Representatives."

"This year's Senate bill was introduced by a bipartisan group of Charleston lawmakers. The pay increase would not be automatically guaranteed to reach that amount but the school board members would decide how high it should go toward that ceiling."

Taxpayers should keep in mind that school boards oversee one of the largest employers in the entire county with a budget in the millions. Doing a proper job of oversight requires many hours on the job. These positions should not be considered stepping stones to higher office but needed oversight of a bloated bureaucracy.

Now, if we could just get the legislature to allow single-member districts and partisan races, we'd be "cooking with gas."