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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious about the replacement people imagine. I’m not sure there will be a line out the door to deal with us. The pool of qualified candidates is shrinking not growing. We are always competing with other nearby counties.  Who else wants to be named as a plaintiff in a supreme court case and be told they make too much for their trouble ? [/quote]

Haha. Taylor makes $360,000 per year. I think there will always be a line out the door for that kind of money. Seriously though, we are the 16th largest school district in the country. There are qualified candidates out there and we will be ready for one to replace this guy. 
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I'm not trying to say $360k isn't a lot of money and anyone making less then that is poor by DCUM standards.

But when you consider the size of the organization that the superintendent runs, the wide range in student populations/demographics that they have to account for, and the public scrutiny they deal with, $360k doesn't seem out of the ordinary.

Just based on a Google search, and not digging or confirming the data, Michelle Reid at Fairfax County has a base salary of $424,146

Cheryl Dyson at Frederick County Public Schools has a salary of $300000, so MCPS has a high salary but I'm putting other local school systems for illustrative purposes.  But Frederick County also has 48054 students compared to MCPS's 159181

Shawn Joseph in Prince Georges County earns $365000.  The Google search result says he's the interim but I think I heard somewhere he got appointed as the permanent.  PG County's student enrollment was 132151 last year

Myriam Rogers at Baltimore County earns $322524 and the student enrollment was 110024 last year

So another way of looking at it might be, do we really want to compete with Fairfax County?  Maybe we need to pony up and offer a salary higher then what their superintendent is getting?[/quote]

Just wanted to added Loudoun County's superintendent salary too:
Aaron Spence $425,334 with an enrollment of 80517

I would rank Loudoun County, both the area and the schools, very highly.  So should be added to any comparables when we're looking at MCPS or comparing different school systems.[/quote]

Fairfax has a stellar whole-school magnet TJHS. Londoun has Academies of Loundoun where students focus on project-oriented learning and authentic research for half-day everyday for straight 4 years. At MCPS, we have stellar magnet programs producing numerous college professors, wall street traders, high-level officials in federal government and astronauts. Instead of considering expanding it into a whole magnet school, Taylor deteriorates them and claims to build 100 programs with virtually no investment.

Now let's discuss whether they should be paid at the current salary level.  [/quote]

A magnet serving 400 students is the least of most of our concerns.  Your w school kids will be fine without it, really.  [/quote]

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