Nov 19, 2020

Davis Center Remuneration by Salary Range--- and the Matter of Superfluous Staff and Bureaucratic Bloat

Over the course of academic years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, the central office (Davis Center, 1250 West Broadway) burden of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) fell from approximately 650 to 450 staff members, a reduction that was one of Superintendent Ed Graff’s notable accomplishments in a tenure that began on 1 July 2016;  the other was giving Senior Finance Officer Ibrahima Diop the scope he needed to produce a structurally balanced budget.

                                                                                                                                                                                       

Graff has slim academic credentials and has done nothing to improve the academic program at the Minneapolis Public Schools, making all the more lamentable the resumption of bureaucratic bloat.  The staff list by salary that I entered on this blog a few days back as you scroll on down indicates that the number of staff members at the Davis Center has now grown to 518---  an increase of approximately 70 since falling to 450.

 

Many superfluous positions clog the offices of the Davis Center, most appallingly the four (4) associate superintendent positions for mentoring principals, a tragi-comic impossibility for these non-scholars;  the entire 24-staff Department of Teaching and Learning, dominated by non-scholars and inhibitive to knowledge-intensive education;  the six staff members of the Office of Black Student Achievement who have nothing to improve Black student achievement;  and  the eleven (11) staff members of the Department of Indian Education, which is legislatively mandated but devoid of scholars capable of designing knowledge-intensive curriculum for Native American students.

 

The median salary at the Davis Center is $73,978, compared to a median teacher’s salary of $72,454.

 

Please keep these comments in view as you peruse the following list:   

 

Salary Range                      Number Remunerated  

                                                        

$100,000 and above                        75

 

$90,000-$100,000                             47

 

$80,000-$90,000                                81

 

$70,000-$80,000                                91

 

$60,000-$70,000                                75

 

$50,000-$60,000                                40

 

$40,000-$50,000                                34          

 

$30,000-$40,000                                45

 

$20,000-$30,000                                21

 

$10,000-$20,000                                  9           

 

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