Detroit Public Schools uber-boss, Robt Bobb (a Broad grad), gets $81,000 raise from *private* donors

[Bozita]

Last Updated: March 03. 2010 1:57PM
Detroit Schools' Bobb gets $81K raise
DPS emergency financial manager's salary rises to $425K, largely via private groups
Marisa Schultz / The Detroit News


Staying a second year in Detroit has netted Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb an $81,000 raise, most of it coming from private foundations.

Bobb will make $425,000 under his one-year contract extension that took effect Tuesday, compared to $344,000 in his first year on the job, according to a copy of the contract obtained by The Detroit News.

His base salary will increase from $260,000 to $280,000 and he'll also get $145,000 in supplemental income from the Los Angles-based Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and other unidentified philanthropic organizations. That's up from $84,000 in private money last year.

The raise sends a bad message to district employees, Detroit Federation of Teachers President Keith Johnson said, since it comes as hundreds of district employees have been laid off and union workers have been asked to make steep concessions.

"I think it is really disingenuous to get what amounts to an $80,000 raise when so many people are being asked to take pay cuts," Johnson said.

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From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100303/SCHOOLS/3030350/Detroit-School-s-Robert-Bobb-gets-$81-000-raise#ixzz0hLD1yYnO

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Private donors?

?

[LWolf]

2. The Broad foundation.

Hannah Bell has posted some information about their unfriendly education agenda:

There's no polite way to say it. Broad trains people like the CIA trains people: to place them in strategic locations in order to collect information, make contacts, & manipulate policy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7840084

7. The Eli Broad training programs for administrators are involved with the military at a high level.

29% of the 2010 class of Broad Superintendents is high-level military.

The present superintendent of the Providence schools (15 minutes' from Central Falls) = 25-year career Army, former commander of Ft. Belvoir, headquarters of the US INTELLIGENCE & SECURITY COMMAND (INSCOM). And a 2004 Broad graduate.



8. Eli Broad is not a nice person who cares about children.

Check out his history in business; most recently, his involvement in the AIG mess. (He's chairman of SunAmerica, a financial services corp that specializes in retirement savings. Its parent company is AIG: & Broad's on the board of AIG).

Check out his public statements demonstrating contempt for democratic processes & the people he steps on in his obsession with making larger & large piles of money, his right-wing associations, his anti-union stance --

He's reportedly the second-biggest "philanthropist" after Gates. And like Gates, he's investing heavily in genetic engineering.


9. Eli Broad, like Bill Gates, is a big Democratic donor.

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=n...

This news makes me take a second, and a third, look at her conclusion about Central Falls:

I don't know about you, but my conclusion is:

Central Falls was a planned, coordinated "test case" to see how the public would react to the arbitrary firing of public employees en masse.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7840084

[Starry Messenger]

3. I actually lived in Oakland when he was City Manager

Broad Academy must be like the body snatchers, because Bobb never showed any sign of wanting to be an overpaid corporate education raider when he was out here. That's just fucking shameful.

[Bozita]

4. Special letter from DFT President Keith Johnson ...

Last Updated: March 05. 2010 1:00AM
Special letter
DFT: Greed destroys Bobb's credibility

Detroit school Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb's decision to accept an $81,000 pay raise at a time when he has negotiated or demanded cost-saving concessions from thousands of Detroit Public Schools employees and eliminated the jobs of others has destroyed his credibility throughout the district ("Bobb's pay stirs ethics controversy," March 4).

The contract with the Detroit Federation of Teachers allowed the district to reduce its direct expenses by $130 million over the life of the contract, including DFT members participating in the Termination Incentive Plan, which will result in our members having their pay reduced $10,000 over 40 pay periods. The contract increases their prescription costs and, for some, increasing their health care contribution by eliminating health care options.

Members of other unions have or will suffer even greater financial hardship through pay and job cuts. It is disingenuous for Bobb to talk about making tough decisions to restore the district to fiscal solvency, yet accept increases that take his salary, not including benefits to $425,000 a year.

The average salary for the head of a school district is $226,000. What is Bobb doing that warrants a salary nearly double that average?

Furthermore, it is a cold slap to the face of Detroit school district employees to tell us we must tighten our belts while his money belt is widened.

This is a matter of right and wrong. A gesture of good faith would have been for Bobb to refuse a pay increase even if it were offered. The foundations that offered the increase as well as Gov. Jennifer Granholm should feel ashamed for insulting Detroit Public Schools' employees.

Greed is not good, and this is greed.

Keith R. Johnson
President, Detroit Federation of Teachers

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100305/OPINION01/3050332/1008/OPINION01/DFT--Greed-destroys-Bobb-s-credibility

[Starry Messenger]

6. Where are all the people here who were complaining about what parasites

teachers were for wanting to negotiate their pay for conditions imposed by the overpaid wankers above them? *crickets*

[madfloridian]

5. Recommended....needs to be seen.

It's ridiculous.

[tonysam]

7. It isn't a "raise." Let's call it by its right name.

It's an outright bribe.

[Hannah Bell]

10. [phone]

[mstinamotorcity]

8. I am a direct impact of Mr.Bobb plan

I am in his s--t.don't worry fellow motorcity folks we have a lot of good people out there willing to help. first things first. You must realize that for every job that is lost that job is connected to any where between one and seven jobs.why a city would take its revenue out of the city where it is being made and spent is beyond me.the next thing to do is write Sen. Levin and Sen. Stabenow and Rep.Kilpatrick,rep.Conyers and Mayor Bing and city council.then explain that these estimated numbers are potential voting members who remember what candidates advocate for the people of their district.then start informing all affected parties of the wrong doings of any entity that can be exposed.I have all ready started.you fired up,You ready to go!!!!

[Bozita]

9. "If the ... AFL-CIO paid one-third of the governor's salary, everyone would see the inappropriate...

"If the Chamber of Commerce or the AFL-CIO paid one-third of the governor's salary, everyone would see the inappropriate nature of the arrangement," Wes Ganson, chairman of the Board Advisory Committee, and Sandra Hines, co-chairwoman of the Coalition to Restore Hope in DPS, said in a joint statement.

From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100304/SCHOOLS/3040389/1410/METRO01/Bobb-s-pay-stirs-ethics-controversy#ixzz0hLaBtTO6