N.J. charter schools escape pay limit
THE RECORD
STAFF WRITER
The director of a Teaneckcharter school with about 300 students was paid more than $200,000 last year. InEnglewood, the head of an even smaller charter school, with 200 students, earned $152,000 in public money for working part time.
Governor Christie has moved to cap the salaries of superintendents at much larger traditional public school districts, but has proposed no such ceiling on tax-supported charters.
To some, the exemption shows how charters — publicly funded but independently
