>>In the California city I lived in, Orange, the school board kept turning down union demands for raises, saying they did not have the money.
>>The union pushed their own candidates in an off-year election and got a majority on the school board.
>Yes.
>Pause for a minute, however, and take a deep breath.
>Was the union the problem, or was it a system that begs the union, or anyone for that matter, to exploit it?
>
>The administrators know that if the teachers get a raise, they'll get one.
>Guess who's negotiating teacher contracts on behalf of the school boards???

Not around here. The school board negotiates with both the teachers union and the administrators union.


>A key source of the grief lies in the elite universities.
>They are the ultimate monopoly.
>Princeton, for example, admits fewer than 6% of its applicants each year.
>The numbers for Harvard and Yale are even lower.
>How would you like to be running a business where you could turn down more than 90% of your deals?
>On Long Island, there are district superintendents making high 6 figures and riding to work in chauferred limos.
>Why?
>Those chaufer-driven leeches are trading on their connections to their leech buddies in the elite schools.
>Most elite university presidents are making 7 figures now.

I saw an article on this the other week. It cited a handful of college presidents making 7 figures. Here we go:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/national-business/article118847573.html

Says 47 overall were over $1M. Median: $513K

I know Penn's president is in that top group. She's running the largest private employer in the city of Philadelphia--looks like over 37,000 people. FWIW, many of those are union jobs.

Tamar