Ms. Weingarten is clearly hoping for a grand bargain in which salaries are increased in return for more mayoral control over the schools, and more accountability and better discipline procedures for teachers.
Kiffin earned about $2.6 million in 2011, the most recent year for which salary figures are available.
Mr. Rader and other state and local education leaders said over the past five years the pool of qualified administrators has shrunk dramatically for a variety of reasons, including increased hours and responsibilities combined with "salary compression," in which pay for school officials is not much higher than upper-level teachers.
The Council's budget, which includes salaries for council members and their staff, represented a change of only $7,165 from the year before.
He gave to Darryl Strawberry Enterprises, another money pit, which provided salaries for his mother and siblings after Ruby Strawberry convinced him that his fame made it impossible for his brothers and sisters to get jobs.
The new contract, which raises salaries for both part-timers and full-timers by a bit more than 10percentt, will not begin to bridge that gap.
The additional recurring costs, which include salaries for additional teachers and operating expenses for new students, are estimated at US$58.00 million over the five-year scale-up period.
After a rather chaotic period, the situation improved in 1996, through the activation of a pool funded by Switzerland, the Netherlands and Norway, which granted salaries for senior specialists, mainly from the former USSR republics, and kept the best of them in place.
Other funders included the Zambia Integrated Health Systems Strengthening Program, a United States Agency for International Development program designed to increase utilization of health services through a health systems strengthening approach, which financed salaries for the lecturers.
But what has changed only minimally is the salary level for determining which "salaried" workers are entitled to overtime.
