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OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries - Page 1 - News - Orange County - OC Weekly

OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries - Page 1 - News - Orange County - OC Weekly

OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries

Local educators fume as the daily publishes its latest salary database

As the Weekly first reported on our Navel Gazing news blog in late October, an Orange County Register editorial project that relies on the names, campuses and salaries of all 72,000 public-school workers in the county for a database of about 37,000 of those employees is riling many instructors.

The article “Public School Paychecks Hit Six Figures for 3,300” by Fermin Leal and Scott Martindale, along with a database that includes the names, schools and salaries of each of those employees, was published Nov. 14 by the Register, which plans to use more