The goal of ParentAdvocates.org
is to put tax dollar expenditures and other monies used or spent by our federal, state and/or city governments before your eyes and in your hands.
Through our website, you can learn your rights as a taxpayer and parent as well as to which programs, monies and more you may be entitled...and why you may not be able to exercise these rights.
Mission Statement
is to put tax dollar expenditures and other monies used or spent by our federal, state and/or city governments before your eyes and in your hands.
Through our website, you can learn your rights as a taxpayer and parent as well as to which programs, monies and more you may be entitled...and why you may not be able to exercise these rights.
Mission Statement
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The E-Accountability Foundation announces the
'A for Accountability' Award
to those who are willing to whistleblow unjust, misleading, or false actions and claims of the politico-educational complex in order to bring about educational reform in favor of children of all races, intellectual ability and economic status. They ask questions that need to be asked, such as "where is the money?" and "Why does it have to be this way?" and they never give up. These people have withstood adversity and have held those who seem not to believe in honesty, integrity and compassion accountable for their actions. The winners of our "A" work to expose wrong-doing not for themselves, but for others - total strangers - for the "Greater Good"of the community and, by their actions, exemplify courage and self-less passion. They are parent advocates. We salute you.
Winners of the "A":
Johnnie Mae Allen
David Possner
Dee Alpert
Aaron Carr
Harris Lirtzman
Hipolito Colon
Larry Fisher
The Giraffe Project and Giraffe Heroes' Program
Jimmy Kilpatrick and George Scott
Zach Kopplin
Matthew LaClair
Wangari Maathai
Erich Martel
Steve Orel, in memoriam, Interversity, and The World of Opportunity
Marla Ruzicka, in Memoriam
Nancy Swan
Bob Witanek
Peyton Wolcott
[ More Details » ]
'A for Accountability' Award
to those who are willing to whistleblow unjust, misleading, or false actions and claims of the politico-educational complex in order to bring about educational reform in favor of children of all races, intellectual ability and economic status. They ask questions that need to be asked, such as "where is the money?" and "Why does it have to be this way?" and they never give up. These people have withstood adversity and have held those who seem not to believe in honesty, integrity and compassion accountable for their actions. The winners of our "A" work to expose wrong-doing not for themselves, but for others - total strangers - for the "Greater Good"of the community and, by their actions, exemplify courage and self-less passion. They are parent advocates. We salute you.
Winners of the "A":
Johnnie Mae Allen
David Possner
Dee Alpert
Aaron Carr
Harris Lirtzman
Hipolito Colon
Larry Fisher
The Giraffe Project and Giraffe Heroes' Program
Jimmy Kilpatrick and George Scott
Zach Kopplin
Matthew LaClair
Wangari Maathai
Erich Martel
Steve Orel, in memoriam, Interversity, and The World of Opportunity
Marla Ruzicka, in Memoriam
Nancy Swan
Bob Witanek
Peyton Wolcott
[ More Details » ]
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Current Events
The Mayor's People - His Deputies and Tweed DOE Educrats - are Making Mega-bucks While the Rest of Us Wonder Why
What do Deputy Mayors Mark Shaw, Kathleen Grimm, Dennis Walcott, and others at City Hall and at Tweed do to earn more than $150,000+ with recent wage increases? We need accountability and transparency.
FATTEST CAT$ ARE ED. BIGS
By DAVID SEIFMAN, NY POST, August 8, 2004 LINK August 8, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE Senior educators in the city's school system are making the grade when it comes to high salaries, with 55 of them earning $150,000 or more a year. In fact, Department of Education employees accounted for 40 percent of the 138 city workers who earned $150,000 and up in the fiscal year ending June 30, according to the Office of Payroll Administration. Chancellor Joel Klein, running the nation's largest school system, was the highest-paid city official at $250,000. Two "regional instructional superintendents" came in at $171,771, and eight others earned between $168,992 and $171,721. By comparison, top city commissioners, such as NYPD boss Ray Kelly, received $162,800. Another 15 "community superintendents" were paid $158,854. Kathleen Grimm, the school system's chief financial officer, was compensated at the level of a deputy mayor - $168,700 - as was Chief of Staff Laverne Srinivasan. All the salaries exclude pay hikes of about 5 percent that Mayor Bloomberg granted last month to match the raises won by union employees. Longtime critics don't begrudge the hefty paychecks - but say they should be matched by performance. "I don't think we should nickel-and-dime people," said Eva Moskowitz, chairwoman of the City Council Education Committee. "You do have to be willing to pay people with a wide-ranging portfolio. On the other hand, many folks in upper management are not doing a very good job yet they're bringing home lots of bacon." Stephen Morello, a spokesman for Klein, said the number of $150,000-plus employees actually declined from 68 in June 2003 to 56 in July 2004, by his agency's reckoning. Morello also pointed out that only four-tenths of 1 percent of the school system's 133,000 employees earn $150,000 or more, a figure he said is comparable to the rest of city government. "We have a much larger work force to manage, and it's more complex - spread over 1,200 schools," Morello added. |
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