Salary of Harlem Village Academy CEO = $1000 per student, $450K

[Hannah Bell]

The blonde is Deborah Kenny, CEO of Harlem Village Academy, 450 students.

She gets paid $442K for running a school the size of my public high school.

Can anyone doubt the charter school movement is a tool for funneling ever-more money to the already-rich & connected?

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/11/black-advised-corporate-welfare-queen.html

[Lasher]

1. Holy shit!

That is a powerful argument against school privatization.

[Hannah Bell]

4. there;s more:

This Sept. 19, 2010 Ed Notes' report on Harlem Village Academy based on a surprising report in the NY Post received some notice.

Harlem Village Academy Retained Only 4 ...

This year Harlem Village Academy opened its doors with only 4 full time teachers returning, a turnover of more than 75%...

The Post article also references a 100% passing rate on the state math exam in 8th grade.

In order to be promoted in middle school you must have an 80% in each class (I am not sure if this practice is legal.) A number of students that do not have an 80 in each class choose to leave the school rather than be held back or go to summer school. In fact DOE numbers show that they lose 32% of their students between 6th and 8th grades (See the link below.)

Under standing their standards for promotion, it is easy to see that the 32% of students that leave are almost all the lowest performing students. If traditional public schools withheld students that got less than an 80 it would be easy to have high passing rates, but we would have to build 30% more schools. Essentially HVA dumps its lowest third of students back into public school system.

This is a school with teachers turn over rate in the past three years 60%, 53%, and now 75%. This is a school where only 19 out of 66 students that started 5th grade graduated. This is a school where 62% of the students have been suspended. This is a school where if a student don't get 80% average, he is asked to repeat the class or attend a summer school, and if the average is less than 75%, the student repeat the class or leave the school. Even regents score has to be no less than 80% or the entire course is repeated. This is a school where students spend 10 hrs a day, and are punished for speaking in the hallways. Upon all these, our leaders are praising this school and even calling it the poster child school. Wake up people!!!



http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2010/11/cathie-black-on-board-of-harlem-village.html

[Lasher]

5. I knew privatized schools would be separating the wheat from the chaff

I just didn't know how and I guess there are other ways. It's a common business practice to make your numbers no matter how much you have to cheat do do it.

[Radical Activist]

2. Outrageous! Only business people should make good money. Not education professionals!

Oh wait...:crazy:

[Hannah Bell]

3. lol. she's no "education professional," she's a corporate grifter.

[Lasher]

6. So the principal - I mean, CEO - is making big money.

Do you know what the teachers are being paid?

[Hannah Bell]

7. no, but 75% didn't come back after last year, so i doubt it's big bucks.

according to this it's "slightly more" than the going rates in nyc -- for a longer day.

http://www.harlemvillageacademies.org/pages/teacher_faq/#q-7

also summer institutes.

my guess is that the hours are unlimited for that "slightly higher" salary.

which is why the turnover is so high.

unless the masters of the universe hire such shitty personnel every year they need to fire 75% of them.

about 1/3 of their teachers are uncertified, so they can't be making that much.

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[Radical Activist]

19. She is now. Fighting against better pay in education is very Marxist of you.

Fight the power!

[girl gone mad]

11. You think the principal of a small high school..

should be earning more than the President of the United States?

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[WinkyDink]

17. Well, both your premise and your conclusion are faulty.

[crikkett]

8. she's probably the only educator on the planet who's paid what she's worth

so chew on that.

Freaking all of our teachers need to be paid like CEOs.

[XemaSab]

10. At a thousand bucks per student

a teacher with 30 kids would be making $30,000 a year.

Not exactly the big bucks there.

[crikkett]

12. Nope, it's not enough. I wish for teachers to make a good living.n/t

[WinkyDink]

18. She's not an educator.

[Reader Rabbit]

9. More proof that ed deform is a scam.

Big business will fleece public education for every last coin and dump thousands of needy kids from their rolls to do so.

[izzybeans]

13. To be accurate, it looks like she heads an organization that runs three schools.

I believe this is more than the head of Chicago Public Schools makes.

She's the equivalent of a small town school superintendent and gets paid like she runs a whole state school system.

The principal of that school probably makes over a hundered thou. which is typical for an urban school.

Another member of the "pay yourself first" worry about it later school of thought.

[erodriguez]

14. She gets paid more the NYC schools chancellor, the NYS governor, the President

[Hannah Bell]

22. with a total of 450 students in those 3 "academies".

[izzybeans]

23. Those are small schools.

whoa.

[Hannah Bell]

25. because they drop 30% of each class after year one, another 26% after year two --

and never replace those they shitcan. they get to keep all the public money, though.

so their "senior" class is less than 50 kids.

[WinkyDink]

16. No wonder they're all laughing.

[Starry Messenger]

21. I thought throwing money at education was frowned on in ed deform circles.

I guess it's all ok as long as you aren't throwing it in the direction of the classroom.

[somone]

24. Nice scam

at taxpayer expense