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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | July 6, 2015 12:27 PM |
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| From: | Representative Jordan A. Harris |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Resolution Directing the Legislative Budget & Finance Committee to Study Charter School Executive Compensation |
| In the near future, I plan to introduce a resolution directing the Legislative Budget & Finance Committee (LBFC) to conduct a comprehensive study on the compensation provided to executives of charter schools across this Commonwealth. Since the enactment of the Charter School Law in 1997, which established charter schools in this Commonwealth, there has been an increasing recognition and appreciation of the need for greater oversight for charter schools, including concerns relating to funding and how public tax dollars are being utilized by charter schools. With this in mind, it is incumbent upon all public schools to be good and faithful stewards of public dollars and to responsibly set salary levels in the compensation of its executives. Under current law, neither the state nor the school district has control over the amount of compensation that a charter school executive receives. It is a charter school’s board of trustees that decides what its executives (a.k.a. “administrators” under the Charter School Law) will receive in salary and other benefits. However, charter school trustees do not have available to them any established guidelines to use when considering what an appropriate compensation should be for their executives. This is an issue that must be addressed for the benefit of Pennsylvania taxpayers. My resolution requests that the LBFC make recommendations as to guidelines that could be utilized by a board of trustees of a charter school in setting appropriate salary levels for its charter school executives. Please join me in sponsoring this resolution. |
Introduced as HR432