It’s not my horse, as my interest is always public records, law, etc., but your math formula is wrong.

Take a GV $51,000 teacher and divide by 190 days for their contract to determine their daily rate.

Multiply the teacher’s daily rate by 260 days for a 12 month employee and you come closer. Remember the 12 month employee gets paid vacation and does not get spring break, two weeks at Christmas, etc., so they have far more days total.

Done a bunch of these for the Union. Hope it helps.

Garden Valley School District #71 shows $45,808 as of 9/1/2009

Garden Valley School District shows $72,000 as of 3/12/2010

Which one is correct? One of these has to be a typo….

Thanks to the Idaho Freedom Foundation, it IS verifiable, and Mr. Tomlin isn’t being truthful. According to http://www.ouridaho.com, his salary as Superintendent is $72,000 a year. If that doesn’t “approach” $80 K a year, I don’t know what does.

Multiply $9 x 365 days (which is actually a lot more days than a teacher works a year), but is the difference between what Mr. Tomlin says he makes and what a teacher makes (he said he makes $9 more a day than a teacher). Well, $9 x 365 is $3,285. How many $68,715 a year teachers do they have up there in Garden Valley? Where do I apply?

Thanks for the data. When the GV sup’s contract came up for renewal this year, he declined to take the yearly increase that’s written into his contract. So his salary is the same as last year.

EDITOR NOTE– Thanks Boisewriter. We honestly tried to find the data, but couldn’t locate it. The GV site isn’t very helpful.

I have had my own personal interactions with several of the people in question and have made up my own mind based on what I know – not what I hear and certainly not what is written in The Idaho World.

I firmly believe there are ways to settle differences and I sincerely hope we are on the way to getting that done.

I will not offer nor discuss opinions but facts are easy.

First, my salary does not approach $80K. I am paid $9.00 a day more than I would earn as a teacher, and work twelve months – so I work more days. Fact. Verifiable. End of that story.

My Contract says nothing about a four-day week, rather it is a .8 FTE as reported to the State Department of Education, and my salary is set at a lower rate per percentage of FTE than that of my predecessor. Fact. Verifiable. End of that story.

Second, an examination of my consulting practice shows that I write, train, teach, and help people with their communications. Posts here have focused on one part of my business.

My client list – zero. Since moving from Boise, and fully engaging the building project of the new school, and the needs of the district here I have taken no clients in those 17 months, and have no remaining clients. I earned no income and represented no clients in 2009, and thus have no conflicts of interest. Simply put, my consulting practice died of neglect due to the time and energy it took to build our new school. My choice, but also a fact. Verifiable. End of that story.

Full disclosure – every three months or so I conduct training at the request of the State Division of Professional Technical Education, in their Certified Public Manager program. Trainings are 1-2 days in length and I receive a stipend from the State for that. I am allowed those days off by the Board since I am .8 FTE.

I hope this is helpful.