By J.T. Stone
SUNY Albany
New York State Senate Republicans are urging state education leaders to reconsider a 46 percent pay bump they quietly authorized last year for state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa.
In a letter to the state Board of Regents on Friday, the GOP conference wrote that boosting the commissioner’s salary from $334,000 to $489,000 was reckless, unwarranted, and offensive. They argued that the funding would be better spent on providing resources to New York’s students.
A copy of the letter is available below.
The commissioner defended her raise earlier this week, noting that she had been earning less than eight school superintendents – the majority of whom are on Long Island – who she oversees. She also said her salary had been dramatically less than other leaders of large institutions, such as SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. and UAlbany President Havidán Rodríguez.
