Why is Karen Garza So Much More Successful Than Other School Superintendents?

[Anonymous]

Why does she get a 7% raise when the teachers have had almost no raise for years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does she get a 7% raise when the teachers have had almost no raise for years?

Why does she get $25k/year extra pay for retirement when teachers have their retirement deducted from their paychecks?

[Anonymous]

Teachers in Fairfax are getting a raise.

Garza has done a great job of sticking up for the schools, securing more funding from the county and state, and preserving the programs that distinguish Fairfax from other local systems. I can guarantee you that, if she was facing the overcrowding mess that APS is now confronting, she would be charging ahead now to figure out how to address it, not twiddling her thumbs and pretending some new "Fairfax Tech" program for a few hundred students was going to solve the problems.

[Anonymous]

shes been able to make it rain and keep funding going up

[Anonymous]

Might just be they don't want the hassle of searching for another Superintendent

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:IME she is well liked by the teaching staff.

Not what I've heard.

My colleagues and I appreciate her. She accomplishes what she says she will, unlike her wishy washy predecessor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IME she is well liked by the teaching staff.

Not what I've heard.

My colleagues and I appreciate her. She accomplishes what she says she will, unlike her wishy washy predecessor.

+1 (another teacher)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers in Fairfax are getting a raise.

Garza has done a great job of sticking up for the schools, securing more funding from the county and state, and preserving the programs that distinguish Fairfax from other local systems. I can guarantee you that, if she was facing the overcrowding mess that APS is now confronting, she would be charging ahead now to figure out how to address it, not twiddling her thumbs and pretending some new "Fairfax Tech" program for a few hundred students was going to solve the problems.

Did teachers in Fairfax get a 7% raise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers in Fairfax are getting a raise.

Garza has done a great job of sticking up for the schools, securing more funding from the county and state, and preserving the programs that distinguish Fairfax from other local systems. I can guarantee you that, if she was facing the overcrowding mess that APS is now confronting, she would be charging ahead now to figure out how to address it, not twiddling her thumbs and pretending some new "Fairfax Tech" program for a few hundred students was going to solve the problems.

Did teachers in Fairfax get a 7% raise?

For next year it is a 1% market scale adjustment for all across the board. Some teachers on mid-career steps are receiving a bit more in an effort to make FCPS more competitive because those steps fall farther below market average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers in Fairfax are getting a raise.

Garza has done a great job of sticking up for the schools, securing more funding from the county and state, and preserving the programs that distinguish Fairfax from other local systems. I can guarantee you that, if she was facing the overcrowding mess that APS is now confronting, she would be charging ahead now to figure out how to address it, not twiddling her thumbs and pretending some new "Fairfax Tech" program for a few hundred students was going to solve the problems.

Did teachers in Fairfax get a 7% raise?

For next year it is a 1% market scale adjustment for all across the board. Some teachers on mid-career steps are receiving a bit more in an effort to make FCPS more competitive because those steps fall farther below market average.

Yes, I am step 16 and am getting about a 7% raise this fall - about $7000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers in Fairfax are getting a raise.

Garza has done a great job of sticking up for the schools, securing more funding from the county and state, and preserving the programs that distinguish Fairfax from other local systems. I can guarantee you that, if she was facing the overcrowding mess that APS is now confronting, she would be charging ahead now to figure out how to address it, not twiddling her thumbs and pretending some new "Fairfax Tech" program for a few hundred students was going to solve the problems.

Did teachers in Fairfax get a 7% raise?

For next year it is a 1% market scale adjustment for all across the board. Some teachers on mid-career steps are receiving a bit more in an effort to make FCPS more competitive because those steps fall farther below market average.

Yes, I am step 16 and am getting about a 7% raise this fall - about $7000.

You are including step in addition to the market scale adjustment. Because you are on step 16, a step that has a larger gap between what FCPS pays and market average, you are receiving a larger % market scale adjustment (raise).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers in Fairfax are getting a raise.

Garza has done a great job of sticking up for the schools, securing more funding from the county and state, and preserving the programs that distinguish Fairfax from other local systems. I can guarantee you that, if she was facing the overcrowding mess that APS is now confronting, she would be charging ahead now to figure out how to address it, not twiddling her thumbs and pretending some new "Fairfax Tech" program for a few hundred students was going to solve the problems.

Did teachers in Fairfax get a 7% raise?

For next year it is a 1% market scale adjustment for all across the board. Some teachers on mid-career steps are receiving a bit more in an effort to make FCPS more competitive because those steps fall farther below market average.

Yes, I am step 16 and am getting about a 7% raise this fall - about $7000.

You are including step in addition to the market scale adjustment. Because you are on step 16, a step that has a larger gap between what FCPS pays and market average, you are receiving a larger % market scale adjustment (raise).

Yes, I am aware of that. I was just confirming what was said above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers in Fairfax are getting a raise.

Garza has done a great job of sticking up for the schools, securing more funding from the county and state, and preserving the programs that distinguish Fairfax from other local systems. I can guarantee you that, if she was facing the overcrowding mess that APS is now confronting, she would be charging ahead now to figure out how to address it, not twiddling her thumbs and pretending some new "Fairfax Tech" program for a few hundred students was going to solve the problems.

Did teachers in Fairfax get a 7% raise?

For next year it is a 1% market scale adjustment for all across the board. Some teachers on mid-career steps are receiving a bit more in an effort to make FCPS more competitive because those steps fall farther below market average.

Yes, I am step 16 and am getting about a 7% raise this fall - about $7000.

You are including step in addition to the market scale adjustment. Because you are on step 16, a step that has a larger gap between what FCPS pays and market average, you are receiving a larger % market scale adjustment (raise).

Yes, I am aware of that. I was just confirming what was said above.

Ok. It's just that the PP asked if teachers are receiving a 7% raise which while true for some (if you include step as part of the "raise" and not just MSA), it's not true across the board. I didn't want people to think all teachers are receiving a 7% raise.

[Anonymous]

Either way Garza has worked hard for teachers in ways that others do not. Murphy doesn't have to go out of his way for teachers because the demographics of Arlington (lots of singles, DINKs and retirees) allowed the county to spend more. Now that APS is overrun with families and is facing a huge capacity crisis, teachers are going to be the last priority there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But it is nice to see someone make a decision and then move forward, rather than raising an issue, and 10 years later implementation is still being discussed.

+1

Also, she doesn't attack the Board of Supervisors as her predecessor did constantly. She actually collaborates with the funders.