chool heads get raises

The Wauwatosa School Board on Monday approved increases in total compensation - including a bump in health insurance - for Superintendent Phil Ertl, administrators and the district's nonunion employees.
Ertl will receive a 3.5 percent increase in total compensation in the 2010-11 school year, bringing his salary to $157,440 plus benefits valued at $56,298.
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School Board member Mary Jo Randall said she was pleased the increases could be granted, and credited it to "the hard work going on at every level of the district."
She said the decision to give Ertl a raise resulted from an annual comprehensive evaluation looking at areas such as planning, instructional leadership and communications.
"It's not an automatic," she said. "It is looked at very carefully."
The board also looked at superintendent salaries from comparable districts, board member Mike Meier said.
Collaboration cited
He credits Ertl with creating a culture of cTennessee Titans jersey ollaboration with his directors of student learning, business services and human resources. As a team they have done the research and planning to bring language program to grades kindergarten through eight, implement engineering curriculum Project Lead the Way and restructure the middle school schedule that should result in efficiencies.
"The district is on the verge of some very significant improvements," Meier said.
Randall says the district can afford the increases.
"We are working within our budget parameters, we are not overspending with these changes," she said.
Less than teachers union
By comparison, the School Board in December approved a new contract with the teachers union that called for a 4.76 percent increase in pay and benefits for Washington Redskins jersey the 2009-10 school year and a 4.25 percent increase in 2010-11.
Under that contract, salaries increased by 3.33 percent and benefits increased by 1.43 percent in 2009-10. In 2010-11, salaries will increase 2.14 percent, with benefits increasing 2.11 percent.