A March 2012 menu feature at Camden's LEAP Academy University Charter School was grilled cheese, tomato soup, peas, and fresh fruit. This month, the menu features grilled cheese, tomato soup, and strawberry applesauce.
»Read story: Camden charter's chef gets $24,000 raise, drawing scrutiny
»Read story: Camden charter's chef gets $24,000 raise, drawing scrutiny
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What a waste of taxpayer money. It's supposed to go towards feeding poor children but they give the chair of the board's *boyfriend* a hefty raise? This is why greater charter oversight is needed.
While we are on the subject of public employees getting hefty raises without it being subject to scrutiny before it gets passed, Philly SD also did the same with its admin down at 440. This is at a time when rank and file, low waged employees are being told to they have to give a portion of their pay back to the district. We have new contract negotiations due this summer. I know how I'll feel about concessions when seat warmers and paper pushers at 440 are raking in 6 figures. The funny thing is that just a couple of months ago, the district sent out this massive email to teachers about needing to get MORE help at 440 and that they were accepting resumes.
If those at 440 can't get all of the work done by themselves and will need teachers as staffers (at their full pay scale), why are they making 6 figure salaries?— nikki1231- You're right! The SDP 440 employee situation is outrageous. I know many of these people. It's a close knit group of political patronage jobs. Husbands and wives, nieces and nephews, sons and daughters. I am still outraged by the recently leaked 25 people that received hefty pay raises at 440 when at the same time there is still the stench of all of the firing of 4000 union support staff in July 2011. Some of those folks have been rehired as non-reps. I don't understand how the unions can go along with that. Somebody explain that one to me. Of the leaked 25 pay raises was a top manager in finance that merely has a 1960's Jr. College degree. The under-achieving leading the dumb. No wonder the place is in such a mess.
— DarnelX - This is the kind of thing that will continue to happen with our hard earned tax dollars, as long as we continue down this path of Charter School expansion.— Peg D
- Oh yes, this mess is because of Charters. Because we all know no one gets a job in the normal public schools because of who they know on the Board or in the administration— robtpenn
- Ms. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago "recusing" herself from the actual decision is NOT good enough! This stinks to high heaven of pay-off! $24,000 raise with a new contract!— EIK
- I wonder what kind of ladle Pastorello is using to stir Bonilla-Santiago's pot. Long handle of short?
— bling - He must make one heck of a tomato soup; they better give him another raise before Campbell Soup lures him away.— jeannie182003
But $95,000 is "pretty steep . . . well above market rate" for a charter school with about 1,000 students, Dermott said. Ya Think .— TimmyDay- We need a Zagat review...making this kind of money, this guy must be a quality chef!!!— dogman5
- Wendell Pritchett is on the board? Isn't that more than just a passing fact? The man is on the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, getting ready to vote to close 37 public schools. Many of them will be given to charters. Now we see that he is on the board of a charter school. And not just any charter school--one that has been in the news a lot recently, and not for good reasons.
Does anyone else see a conflict here?— pachysandra - Wendell Prittshit is KEEPING HIS OPTIONS OPEN. When the Rutgers-Camden chancellor gig was in danger during that Glassboro consolidation talk by Governor Christie last year, Prittshit was positioning himself to be School District Superintendent JUST IN CASE. That option is still on his menu because the Superintendent position is open on the average of every two and a half years. It looks to me like Hite, Philadelphia's new low, will be staying here for a much shorter time. Hite is just terrible. All of this will come out soon. — DarnelX
- someone is crooked. they are crying we're to broke to to pay for police. not alot of money for schools, but the system pays the chef this kind of money. check out the mayor. we have a crook for a mayor in phila. too.— etbarksdale
- KEEEP DIGGING... You know there is going much, much more to come. As a taxpayer I won't be content until Bonilla-Santiago is behind bars where she belongs.— LumpDog
- Nothing has changed.— qba2000
- Gotta love the Charter Schools. An open license to steal...all approved by our bloated, useless Legislature. And the stealing goes on while they rob funding that should be going to our public schools. By the way getting more money per student than public schools if I recall correctly. It is time for taxpayers revolt and demand they all be closed or let the parents pay the bill...not us. Watch as our legislature ignores this growing problem.— thepaguy
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