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    Quote Originally Posted by NY The Vampire State View Post
    Was driving down Central today and noticed signs for Hossain and Studley had the Lancaster School District emblem on them. Pretty sure that's prohibited under education and or election law.
    Would that disqualify the two for running for office? or is it just a slap on the hand and the signs stay up?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Would that disqualify the two for running for office? or is it just a slap on the hand and the signs stay up?
    Neither, at this stage of the game – IMO.

    The Studley-Nargis duo has been using the District’s logo and trademark for weeks and nothing has taken place to stop the usage. In all the years I have followed BOE campaigns this is the first I can recall where a candidate(s) used such tactic to give voters the perception that their candidacy is favored by the school district.

    That is not of concern to me as anyone with any knowledge of the district’s performance can see right through the obvious deceit. Of concern is the uninformed individual who is swayed by the disingenuous rhetoric and false promises being made by such candidate(s).

    This is but another desperate 11th hour political move to detract from the shortcomings of some candidates. Somewhat made a point of declaring that the Lancaster Central Teacher Association (LCTA UNION) hasn’t endorsed a candidate in some years. That statement is first of all untrue as they did endorse one candidate two years ago and did so regularly years before the Redskin name change. Since then they abstained; and in my opinion because they wanted to stay neutral.

    If the LCTA were to endorse candidates this year, that would be the death knell for the candidates not receiving such endorsement - IMO.

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    Why Greg, do you copy and paste these articles from the Bee and Buffalo News but not your own??

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    Last year, the LCTA endorsed Mary Jo Schaefer.
    http://www.lancasterbee.com/news/201...andidates.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by gorja View Post
    Last year, the LCTA endorsed Mary Jo Schaefer.
    http://www.lancasterbee.com/news/201...andidates.html
    the formatting of that article is all screwed up. the name of the candidate is before, not after their bio. dr okeke received the endorsement, not mary jo schaefer

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    Quote Originally Posted by abc123 View Post
    the formatting of that article is all screwed up. the name of the candidate is before, not after their bio. dr okeke received the endorsement, not mary jo schaefer
    Thank you for correcting my error.

    No excuse for the error except old age and old eyes

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    What the Republican candidates DO have going for themselves is the budget and the report of stock piling taxpayer monies. The Superintendent is overpaid, that is a fact. In fact I find it grossly ridiculous, this does not mean I advocate the slate, it means this is a platform worthy of looking at in terms of salary disparity. With the decline in enrollment and the increase in budget although it reflects the mandates, the report from the Comptrollers office is relevant just like the report from the Comptrollers office for the town of Lancaster's budgets deeming basically the same findings as what was found in the school budgets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shortstuff View Post
    The Superintendent is overpaid, that is a fact.
    False. He was paid $185,000 for 2016.

    This week, the West Seneca School District, which is slightly smaller than Ken-Ton, hired Whitney K. Vantine as its interim superintendent at a rate of $750 a day, which works out to an annual salary of $195,000 a year. Vantine had prior experience as a superintendent for 22 years at various districts, including the City of Tonawanda School District.

    The standard pay for an interim superintendent in Western New York is $650 to $700, according to Robert W. Christmann, executive director of Western New York Educational Services Council.

    A candidate's experience and the local market can affect what superintendents and interim superintendents are paid, said Christmann, whose council has done superintendent searches recently in Rochester, Albany and Watkins Glen.

    "There are a number of factors that go into it," he said.

    Members of the council will determine a salary range with the School Board, he said. They consider the size of the district, what the current superintendent is making and what other superintendents in BOCES are making. The number of years of experience and academic preparation are considered, and a candidate with a doctorate may receive a higher salary. How successful the candidate has been in his or her last job is a factor, too, he said.

    "If someone has been successful in the past, they'll be successful in the future," Christmann said.
    http://buffalonews.com/2017/04/20/bo...hool-district/

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    Quote Originally Posted by NY The Vampire State View Post
    Was driving down Central today and noticed signs for Hossain and Studley had the Lancaster School District emblem on them. Pretty sure that's prohibited under education and or election law.
    Permission was asked and given by district as it was last year for Metz and Gallagher

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    Quote Originally Posted by NY The Vampire State View Post
    Was driving down Central today and noticed signs for Hossain and Studley had the Lancaster School District emblem on them. Pretty sure that's prohibited under education and or election law.
    Permission was granted by the district when asked as it was last year for Gallagher and Metz

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    metz/gallagher did not have the district logo on their campaign signs last year lancastermom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neubs24 View Post
    False. He was paid $185,000 for 2016.



    http://buffalonews.com/2017/04/20/bo...hool-district/
    Really, you are comparing apples to oranges? You did not finish viewing his package-over 200 wake up Neubs24, times have changed, that compensation package he has is pretty amazing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shortstuff View Post
    Really, you are comparing apples to oranges? You did not finish viewing his package-over 200 wake up Neubs24, times have changed, that compensation package he has is pretty amazing.
    amazing compared to superintendents of similarly sized districts, or amazing compared to what you arbitrarily think his compensation should be?

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    Quote Originally Posted by abc123 View Post
    amazing compared to superintendents of similarly sized districts, or amazing compared to what you arbitrarily think his compensation should be?
    Its difficult because of the decades downtrodden economy that people cannot comprehend the money that a Superintendent makes, but its is tons less that the similar position would make in the private sector. Would you run a multi campus business with say 5000 employees who are responsible for the health, safety, and education of thousands of minors for $200K a year? Some people think they would until they actually discovered the responsibility and time involved. Just like our know-it-all president who thought being the leader of the free word would be easy.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    Its difficult because of the decades downtrodden economy that people cannot comprehend the money that a Superintendent makes, but its is tons less that the similar position would make in the private sector. Would you run a multi campus business with say 5000 employees who are responsible for the health, safety, and education of thousands of minors for $200K a year? Some people think they would until they actually discovered the responsibility and time involved. Just like our know-it-all president who thought being the leader of the free word would be easy.......
    For the most part the "Super" isn't running a campus with say 5000 employees who is responsible for everything. Or i should say accountable for the most part. There is no standard to base the performance of a principle or superintendent. At least from the outside that is what is looks like. When was the last time we had a superintendent "fired" at any school district in the true sense of being fired? I don't mean here's your gold parachute now leave.

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