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What’s behind those sky high charter salaries?
Harlem Village Academies chief Deborah Kenny earns $500,000 to run her burgeoning empire of excellence.
The eye-popping salaries commanded by some New York City charter execs are raising eyebrows, not to mention the hackles of haters. As a state-of-the-art technology known as Google quickly reveals, though, it’s not just in the Big Apple where charter chiefs are pulling down mad cheddar. But talking about money is so gauche, reader, which is why so many of these excellent execsinsist on keeping compensation information to themselves. 
A deeper dive
Today’s fiercely urgent question: why do charter executives make so much money? Fortunately this question has many simple answers. 1) You can’t put a price on excellence 2) You are a hater for even asking the question and 3) What don’t you understand about