{"id":7210,"date":"2009-12-16T08:01:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7210"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:49:19","slug":"what-180-k-will-get-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7210","title":{"rendered":"What 180K Will Get You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul Schools <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/stpaul\/79375522.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUF\">officially have a superintendent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The St. Paul school board on Tuesday unanimously approved a $180,000 salary and a three-year contract with its new district superintendent, Valeria Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Silva, who most recently served as the district&#8217;s chief academic officer, was chosen over two other finalists after a five-month search for the job of overseeing the state&#8217;s second-largest school district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Chief Academic Officer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Saint Paul Schools have among the worst achievement gaps of any major-city school in the country.\u00a0 The graduation rate is hovering around 50%.\u00a0 The minority graduation rate is much, much lower.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly <em>did<\/em>\u00a0 Ms. Silva do?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0The district has 38,000 students, 6,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $600 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which means the actual budget is just south of $16,000.\u00a0 Which is 50% more than a charter school student gets.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the part I love (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now I can get down to the work of leading St. Paul Public Schools <strong>for at least the next three years<\/strong> while we all continue our work of providing a premier education for every student,&#8221; Silva said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read another way: &#8220;I am now on the Celebrity Superintendent train!\u00a0 Whooooooooo!\u00a0 Three years &#8217;til Denver!\u00a0 Three more years I&#8217;ll be in Chicago!\u00a0 All abooooooooooard!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul Schools officially have a superintendent: The St. Paul school board on Tuesday unanimously approved a $180,000 salary and a three-year contract with its new district superintendent, Valeria Silva. Silva, who most recently served as the district&#8217;s chief academic officer, was chosen over two other finalists after a five-month search for the job of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7212,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}