Do it for the Children: Ridgewood BOE to push for higher pay for superintendent
Friday January 11, 2013, 3:42 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
In coming weeks, the Ridgewood Board of Education (BOE) will likely support a resolution, to be drafted by trustee Michele Lenhard, asking the state to reconsider the rigidity of its superintendent salary cap.
Citing the unintended consequences of the cap, including the greater difficulty to replace superintendents who have resigned, Lenhard proposed the resolution at last Monday’s BOE meeting.
After the meeting, Lenhard told The Ridgewood News that the BOE would likely be advocating for a “waiver application” with the resolution.
“It’s a resolution that would go before the New Jersey School Board [Association’s] Delegate Assembly,” said Lenhard, who will present a resolution draft to the board in a public meeting next week. “It would give them a position … We would be requesting them to oppose it, but I don’t know what would happen at the end of the day.”
According to Lenhard, it is possible that legislators might consider a waiver application for school districts that want to offer their superintendents higher pay – a possibility she said would be “a real positive step to increase flexibility.”
Do it for the children, Dr. Fishbein — spend the money on having an armed police officer at each school and not on your salary.