Letter: On the subject of superintendent salaries

Posted 11/5/26

To the editor:

Dear taxpayers, a quick internet search revealed that the recently hired and now departing Superintendent of Schools, Javier Montañez, for Providence was making $200,000 per …

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Letter: On the subject of superintendent salaries

Posted

To the editor:

Dear taxpayers, a quick internet search revealed that the recently hired and now departing Superintendent of Schools, Javier Montañez, for Providence was making $200,000 per annum. It also stated that Providence has approximately 20,000 students.  

Therefore, using those data points, a benchmark or metric concludes that a School Superintendent's role is worth about $10/per student.

A similar search result for Barrington states there are about 3,500 students in Barrington. The same search indicates our Superintendent earns $265,000 with an additional car allowance.

I'm sure someone will "school" me as to how this makes sense or cents!  

Marc Zawatsky

Barrington

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