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It's Time for Drums at RUSD [Blog]

Ramona Unified School District is basically bankrupt and dilapidated, and the Superintendent earns $234,673! How is this possible?

It’s time for drums at RUSD

The Union Tribune, Oct. 28, 2012, published a list of county school district superintendents and their compensation.

Of the 34 districts, the superintendent of Ramona Unified came in 14th for total annual compensation of $234,673. According to the UT data, this represents a 13.4 percent increase since the last survey in 2010.

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For comparison purposes, the superintendent of Grossmont earns just slightly more than the RUSD Superintendent Robert Graeff, but the budget at Grossmont is more than three times larger. At RUSD, the classified employees have taken pay cuts, and the teacher’s union negotiations declared at an impasse, while the superintendent takes home a boatload of compensation.

I have asked why we are paying Mr. Graeff and other upper level administrators so much money when the schools roofs are leaking and the state is threatening to take over, and the argument was that if they fired him they couldn’t get equally qualified people to run the place. I guess that means that we have to pay more for people that can’t keep the place running properly?

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I realize that everything that has gone wrong at RUSD is not Robert Graeff’s fault, however someone has to be responsible, and with an annual compensation of $234,673, it has to be him. This is why I believe that we the public need to start demanding that Graeff go. I will be at the next RUSD board meeting, November 15 at 7 p.m. making that demand. Let’s all show up there and beat some drums to let the school board know that status quo of a bankrupt and dilapidated school district is unacceptable. Graeff has to go!

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