Chancellor Richard Carranza says classrooms will suffer from planned $827 million budget reductions because “there is no fat to cut.” But DOE insiders say he should slash his evergrowing bureaucracy, which includes:
1,189 central-office educrats making $125,000 and up, costing taxpayers $181 million a year. 50 administrators making more than $200,000 annually. Carranza earns$363,000. 164 new central administration hires on March 15, the day schools closed due to COVID-19. 340 positions added to central administration and borough offices in 2019. A mid-level bureaucracy that has more than doubled in cost, to $351 million, under Mayor de Blasio. 191 educrats with desk jobs paying more than $125,000 each in the Office of Teaching and Learning. 215 staffers in the Division of Early Childhood making $125,000 at desk jobs. First Deputy Chancellor Cheryl Watson-Harris, who makes $241,102, and her 17 high-paid underlings.
The Office of School Wellness, run by Executive Director Lindsey Harr, which oversees phys-ed and health programs. The department promoted 19 staffers to supervisors in the past year, with raises up to 45 percent.
Nine $207,559-a-year executive superintendents to oversee district superintendents — an extra layer of bureaucracy created by Carranza costing $3 million.
$35.5 million for First Lady Chirlane McCray’s ThriveNYC mental-health school “consultants” who don’t serve children directly.
The $10 million Academic Response Team’s three executives and nine directors, who oversee teacher coaches who pop by lagging schools.
$1.66 million annually to a private firm, Accenture, for management consulting. It has a new two-month, $1.2 million contract for school-reopening advice.