Most businesses would wait until an employee's demonstrated value to the organization before giving them a raise or bonus. Not so in Round Rock ISD. There, school board members reward the Superintendent hoping that improved student performance will result. It appears the school board is rewarding his personality, not performance.
Survey examines pay for district supers
LAURI ZACHRY
Education Reporter
Round Rock ISD Superintendent Jesus Chavez's salary falls into the upper range of Texas superintendent salaries for the 2008-09 school year.
The average superintendent salary for the 2008-09 school year is $113,334, a 3 percent increase from the 2007-08 school year, according to the Texas Association of School Boards Superintendent Salary Survey released recently. Average superintendent salaries range from $79,493 in districts with less than 500 students to $272,347 in districts with more than 50,000 students.
Six percent of the responding districts gave a raise averaging 4.2 percent to their respective returning superintendent's for the 2008-09 school year, according to the TASB salary survey. The average bonus paid was $9,339 or 7 percent of the superintendent's salary.
The Round Rock ISD Board of Trustees voted in February to increase RRISD Superintendent Jesus Chavez's base salary to $243,080 from $221,991. In addition, the board increased his business expense allowance by $1,000, giving him a total of $5,800 for the year. Chavez's contract was extended to June 30, 2011. His previous contract would have expired in 2010.
"This was an easy decision," RRISD Trustee Diane Cox said in February, after the board made the decision to give Chavez a raise. "He has more than proven himself with the board. He has developed such community support. You even hear at regional and state meetings good comments about him and how he is leading RRISD. He's a strong mentor, cognizant of needs and always willing to give of his time."
Since Chavez became superintendent in 2006, he has helped contribute to some memorable moments in the district. He said the highlights of the past two years have been:
• completing a bond study report with the community in early 2006
• passing the November 2006 bond for approximately $267 million
• reorganizing the district into elementary and secondary sectors
• standardizing the curriculum, programming and benchmarking tests
• adopting "Failure is Not an Option" as the district's school improvement model and developing curriculum around that model
"There is no doubt we as a district will improve and individual schools will improve," Chavez said in February. "Good things will happen in Round Rock."
The TASB Superintendent Salary Survey is a compilation of superintendent salary and benefit information submitted to TASB's Human Resources Services during the fall semester of the 2008-09 school year. TASB sent invitations to participate in the salary survey to 1,030 Texas school districts.
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