Why the Outside Consultants?

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For the 2008-09 school year, Plainview spent $754,157.22 on educational consultants. With an elaborate administrative bureaucracy, why is still necessary to hire consultants to do the District's work?

- Plainview will spend $12,000 this year for a consultant to teach building administrators how to do observations of teachers. Didn't anyone check to see if they knew how to do this before they were hired?

- Last year the Assistant Superintendent for Business received a 10.75% salary increase. The members of the PCT received an increase of 3.575%, the average increase in Nassau County.

-The Superintendent's contract obligates the District to pay him a car allowance of $500 per month. Members of the PCT who uses their cars for District business are reimbursed the IRS mileage rate.

- Teachers who retire from the District receive payment for heath insurance of 50% individual or 36% family coverage(s). Central office administrators in our District, who have substantially higher pensions, get 75% of either individual or family coverage paid by the District.

- Despite having layer upon layer of administration, the Plainview- Old Bethpage School District had to spend $754,157 on outside consultants last year.
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