DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, April 19th 2007
Every public school principal, assistant principal and supervisor is in for a 22% raise - if their union can reach an agreement with the city.
School leaders have been without a raise since their last contract expired in 2003, even as Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has moved to give them unprecedented power to run their schools - and suffer the consequences if they fail.
Now, city and union sources say a deal is close that would bump top principals from their current ceiling of $125,000 to more than $150,000 within the next couple of years.
Assistant principals, who now make between $88,000 and $107,000 - in some cases, less than the veteran teachers who work for them - would leap ahead of nearly all teachers.
"Meetings and phone calls are taking place almost daily. Many issues are in flux. This is a sensitive time," union President Ernest Logan said in a statement.
