Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Daily News link to LAUSD Employee Salaries Database; Part of series from 2/20/09

There's an updated "LAUSD EMPLOYEES SALARY DATABASE" in the L.A. Daily News from 2-20-09 pubulias part of as series of items on the LAUSD operations and seeing what the facts are for the assorted issues raised among the current news about the educational issues. The database is searchable by name, job title and salary range at http://lang.dailynews.com/socal/lausdpayroll/

The Daily News describes more on it's handling of the salary database in the 2/20/09 publication as part of its 2-Part Series on the LAUSD, and has a number of related stories and items as well as the searchable Salary Database, "Fairness played a key role in publishing LAUSD salaries," http://www.dailynews.com/ci_10579910

An item especially interesting in the current face of cutbacks is the link to a September 2008 story about sucesss at Cleveland High's 4,000 student campus, "Despite cutbacks, students thrive at Cleveland High in Reseda," http://www.dailynews.com/ci_10579910 By George B. Sanchez, Staff Writer, Updated: 02/20/2009. You can see some other related links along with the link to the article on the Beaudry headquarters, Beaudry building in downtown L.A. a pricey place for LAUSD personnel and more on that page.

Pay is one part of the current District concern, trying to save money by eliminating positions and you can search by clicking on "pay ranges" to see who and how many are in various pay ranges and what their job title is. The database has "David Brewer" still as Superintendent at $300.000.00 salary, but "Ramon Cortines" wasn't found on that database by name or pay range search.