So, she makes more than the police chief????!!!! Are you flipping kidding me, Troy where are your priorities and your brains????!!!! This is so backwards it is sick!!!!!!!

The best part of all this is the internal misleading going on. She never took the pay cut that shows on paper. The administration bloated the annuity for this year so in actuality she made exactly what she did last year. It was a numbers game central office played to hide the fact they never actually took the pay cuts. It only looked like they did......She is a piece of work and so are all the school board members. While staff, teachers and administrators take cuts this woman keeps raking it it.

Far as the police chief goes he is just as overpaid in his own right......whole city is a mess but nobody wants to make the necessary changes or can challenge the internal machine.

As far as Im concerned, these salaries are absured. Total compensation should be no more than $150,000... and maybe throw in a car - and not an expensive car. And we wonder why our taxes are so high??? I checked out the taxes in other states and they pay 1/3 what we do.. Not saying we should cut that low, but these salaries are ridiculous!

What’s more, the retirement benefits for government school administrators and teachers are way better than anything those of us in the private sector can get.

I don’t blame administrators and teachers for taking the benefits they are entitled to. Shame on us, the taxpayers, for agreeing to it.

We all want the best education for our kids, but our current overspending is contributing to the impending bankruptcy of our country and the debt load we are passing on to the next generation.

We can’t all work for the government. Someone has to pay the bills. It shouldn’t be our kids and grandkids, yet to be born.

This report should include how much money the top donors to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy make, and the motives of those donors.

Also, quibble with their salaries if you'd like ... but Troy and Utica Schools are outstanding. And our Police Chief earns every dime he makes for Troy's admirable safe city ranking. A solid return on every tax dollar spent.

If you're going to compare salaries to other states, you must also include additional metrics (text scores, etc.) for a complete picture.

Leading in an era of money grabs by the state and extremist political scrutiny all while meeting the rigors of out-of-control standardized test mania is a significant task. Don't criticize until you take a walk in her shoes and understand the challenge of the position.

Well said Zolton Zizzo and Chris P.

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a facade for GOP Conservatives. Do some research on Michael Van Beek, Director of Education Policy. Easy to find that he was a teacher in a FAILED charter school with only a handful of students in each class. Pales in comparison to the thirty plus students public teachers have in their classrooms. The Mackinac center is an agenda, plain and simple with no merit whatsoever. Again, do your research.

Regarding the Superintendent pay... it's an obscene amount of money to spend on ONE administrative position. And people think teachers are overpaid!!! Any teacher could easily do her job...easily! Do you know how Troy Schools became such a great distrcit? I do. The Teacher's Union! Teachers in Troy have fought long and hard for pay, classroom sizes, classroom resources, etc...

Be informed. Do your homework. All of this information is free to the public, and if denied, the Freedom of Information Act is our (U.S. citizens) right.

First, Troy's tax millage is second lowest. Check out the recent financial report. Second, if you don't want to pay for quality stuff, then move your butt East of Dequinder.

In the above article, it looks like Supt. Fowler's compensation is in-line with other suburban school districts. Maybe as a whole it seems that those at the top are being paid more than the job would merit, but look at what top CEO's in the private sector make, that is truly obscene. The compensation package for the CEO of the supposedly non-profit, tax-exempt BCBS of Michigan for 2011 was $3.27 million, for example. Sorry, but I can't get terribly excited over Ms. Fowler or the Police Chief's salaries especially given the high level of service that I can personally see in these areas in Troy.

The Troy School District has adopted a 'schools of choice' option. Therefore, moving has absolutely nothing to do with quality of safety and/or schools.