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FBN’s Liz MacDonald breaks down the states where superintendent’s are making CEO pay.
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-- exclusive do you know how much your kids' school superintendent makes.
Well according to a Fox Business special investigation many schools superintendent -- not only among the highest paid government workers at a country.
They're actually making more money than their own governor's New Jersey governor Chris Christie says that's just ridiculous.
Why am -- standing up to school boards on the superintendent pay issue the arrogance of these schools superintendents.
When they know the cap is coming capping school superintendent salaries that no more of what the governor makes innocent -- hoping to -- -- that's -- tough job.
But after having -- this one now for eleven months.
And -- tougher than this that's for sure to ask them and asked the superintendent that run those places why.
It's possible.
When hundreds of millions of dollars -- given the -- school district every year that they don't have money for paper.
Hello Elisabeth this investigation she found the numbers in their absolutely staggering lose yet education week has given US school system -- C minus grade at the same time we found twelve states.
Where this school super they're getting paid more than their state governor is it's California's in there.
Ohio Pennsylvania New York we found of course on Long Island the worst fat cats superintendents.
-- gossip and Rockville center get paid more than even the super of the biggest school system in the country.
The New York City school system and backed governor Andrew Cuomo has said you know what I applied for that job they're getting a half a million dollars each and compensate -- A million -- -- million there and so what they're doing Charles is increasingly we're seeing school super is being called.
CEOs you see that the state of California and Ohio and Pennsylvania and -- using CEO pay models -- to pay them where they get perks like.
Free cars free cell phones or tuition for their children bonuses.
A up money for unused vacation -- But when New Jersey governor Chris Christie in another state tried to cap the pay and get this surgery in what's called double dipping and there's -- states where they get paid more.
Then the governor's meaning what they're doing an Ohio managers that we found a rampant practice when they try to cap the school super picked up the -- They'd retire early get their pensions pocket the -- link get rehired as schools troopers or administrators -- adjunct professors elsewhere without one guy who's had 23 job since he retired.
As the school still eighteen years of no brings -- -- -- three pocketing one point two million.
You say often they make ten times what a teacher makes.
What exactly goes into the job what are they -- that that you know that I mean -- they administered the school I mean.
That's a great question because what their argument is is they'll receive multimillion dollar budget with a huge felt phalanx of administrators and teachers and students.
I gotta tell you they do have a lot of help in the way of those school administrators.
And when you're asked you when you see what are they actually dealing look up whole way in California where that -- gets -- six figure salaries for his super status super superintendent pay.
They and that district remember we reported this on parting company you and I were talking about -- -- -- what a hundred million dollars they're gonna spend a hundred million dollars but the part eventually one billion bucks.
With these crazy bond deals and are they helping the kids.
I mean we looked into the -- it's not so great for allowed us to schools across the country got a big report Fox Business web -- about this -- Everyone has to go to the Fox Business website and check that out this is the completely outrageous it's not it's just.
Beyond -- Speaking so.
