In honor of the talented Dennis Hopper: "Pop quiz hotshot..."
What has just shy of 700 years of experience, and costs $1.5 MILLION dollars?
Answer: The top 20 highest paid SPEA members entering the 2010-11 school year.
That's right. 20 certified staff. $1,533,298 in salary. Another $576,000 in benefits.
And they all have enough tenure, age --and let's not forget salary-- to retire comfortably.
Wanna shave a quick million bucks off the budget? We need to have these folks retire. They've done their time, and we are grateful for their service...but at an average cost of $100K each, and when newly hired staff generally cost about $50K, that would save $1,000,000.
Number One...make it so.