I guess that a salary of $302,000 isn't enough to motivate Abe Saavedra -- he needs a bonus of $67,250 to motivate him to do his job well. At 22%, it is clear that bonuses are much more generous for HISD administrators than for HISD teachers.

Houston ISD Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra will be $67,250 richer today when the school district distributes its latest round of performance bonuses.

Saavedra's new contract, approved by the school board in January, made him eligible for $80,000 in bonus pay based in part on students' test scores.

As head of the state's largest school district, Saavedra earns a base salary of $302,000. His bonus — 22 percent of his base pay — is more than almost all his teachers take home in a year.

"That's not going to be a morale builder," Gayle Fallon, president of the largest teachers' union, said about the superintendent's bonus.

About half of the Houston Independent School District's teachers received incentive bonuses earlier this year, with the average check equaling $1,850. That represents less than 4 percent of the typical teacher's base pay of $48,000.

let's see -- over 20% for a paper-pushing administrator who has minimal contact with kids, but 4% for the teachers in the classroom. And even then, HISD screwed up its bonus calculations and is asking for $73,700 in cash to be returned by teachers -- enough to cover the Superintendent's bonus. Here's a better idea -- since he did such a crappy job of overseeing the bonus program this year, why not give him ZERO this year and let the teachers, who actually do the real work of the district, have that money?

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