Local control? What a concept!
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The suggestion that Indiana lawmakers adopt a pay cap for school district superintendents doesn't seem to have much support.
A legislative committee studying the issue heard Thursday from state and local education officials panning it, but the lawmaker who wanted the hearing didn't attend the meeting and no one spoke in favor of the cap.
A top aide to state schools superintendent Tony Bennett told the committee that it should be up to individual school boards to decide how much to pay their administrators.
I think superintendents might be a little overpaid, but Bennett is right that the decisions on compensation should be left to local school boards. (So should a lot of other things now taken over by state and federal education officials, but I guess that's another issue.) If the school board does something I don't like, I can more easily make my voice heard that I can when state-level officials stray.
Kind of pathetic that the guy who called for the hearing didn't even show up, isn't it?
