Sunday, September 2, 2007 , Updated
Dallas ISD’s badly supervised payroll program led to inappropiate overpayments
DALLAS — A report in the Dallas Independent School District found that employees of the school district have received inappropriate payments and compensation that they weren't supposed to get.
The district's supplemental pay system gives money to employees that isn't part of their regular compensation. But the payroll department hasn't been able to monitor whether the payments are justified or not. More than 3,000 requests per month are made for extra pay -- payments that the payroll department never checked out. And it appears that employees who inappropriately received the extra dough, such as the high school band director who got nearly $40,000 and the football coach who got nearly $9,000 more than they were due, never spoke up.
Posted by T.G.
roninmd, says:
The fact is there isn't much incentive for good people and good performance in teaching. Positions are hard to fill and teachers can't expect to make more than a blue coller salary. The standard political approach to this is always to act like accountability is the answer. All carrot and no stick for teachers. In your job do you do good work just to keep from getting fired? Teachers need to be paid for performance and they need to have a lot more opportunity to make a real salary.
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