S.F. School Board Raises Move Ahead; Budget Cuts Loom
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| Our schools are broke, but so are our teachers |
After much debate over the last several months, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors favored placing a measure on the ballot as early as June which -- if passed -- would allow school board members a much better salary.
Should it pass at the polls, the seven school board members would get paid equivalent to half of what a first-year teacher makes -- roughly $25,000 annually. Now, board members get a $500 monthly stipend which anyone will concede isn't enough to cover a week's worth of rent.
Nobody ever said they don't deserve it; as many board members have pointed out they often work as much as 20 hours a week meeting with teachers, students, and spending ungodly hours at board meetings.
Yet the additional raises will cost an extra $175,00 annually at a time when San Francisco Unified School District is grappling with a $113 million budget deficit.
So we posit this question: Will the district have to layoff teachers to pay board members?
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