Acting upon a recommendation from Superintendent Robert M. Tomback, the Harford County Board of Education has appointed Jean A. Mantegna as assistant superintendent of human resources for Harford County Public Schools. The action came at a board business meeting held on November 8, 2010 in Bel Air.
Ms. Mantegna fills a vacancy created by the departure of Jonathan O’Neal in July. She will earn $131,595 per year, the advertised salary for the school system’s top HR position.
A Harford County resident, Mantegna was the human resources manager for Baltimore County Public Library from 1998 to the present. Prior to 1998, she held management positions in human resources, primarily with healthcare organizations in the Baltimore area.
Ms. Mantegna is one of several new faces in the senior management of Harford County Public Schools. Under a reorganization that began last June, Superintendent Tomback brought Dr. William Lawrence from Baltimore County Public Schools to head up instruction, curriculum and assessment, and tapped Barbara Canavan, the former principal of Southampton Middle School, to the new position of executive director of middle school performance. Dr. Jonathan Brown, formerly with the Maryland State Department of Education, was named director of community engagement, equity, and cultural proficiency in mid-July, at about the same time that O’Neal left his post as head of human resources and Chief Financial Officer John Markowski announced plans to retire. Markowski’s position has been re-named as the assistant superintendent for business services, and is currently being advertised at an annual salary of $131,595.
All together now…”CHA CHING”
From the Declaration of Independence, listing the complaints against King George III:
“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
$131,595 a year for the ASSISTANT superintendent of human resources. I guess they need a swarm or officers to eat out our substance, i.e., our tax dollars. And then they wonder why there’s a tea party movement!
And then send our kids home to raise funds by selling nuts, candles, writing paper, discount coupons and a whole raft of other shit that no one wants in order to fund legitimate field trips and needed supplies.
Methinks they don’t quite get it.
Administrative salaries in Harford County, when taken as a whole, are way above the district average in Maryland. Our pay for those who make policy is way too high, especially when you think that those who actually do the teaching haven’t seen a raise in quite some time. Now, I am no way in favor of massive teacher pay raises in these econonomic times. However if I am going to pay taxes for the school system (and my kids have long since graduated), then I would rather see these monies used for classroom purposes. Like Dave says, there is a reason why there seems to be no money for necessities.