On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.

Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in the state and among the top in the nation.

Valere Public Schools Superintendent Salvador Cavazos’ compensation to run three campuses in Austin, Corpus Christi and Brownsville exceeds the less than $450,000 that New York City’s chancellor makes to run the largest school system in the country.

But Cavazos’ salary looks far more modest in publicly posted records that are supposed to provide transparency to taxpayers. That’s because Valere excludes most of his bonuses from its reports to the state and on its own website, instead only sharing his base pay of about $300,000.

  • @SanctusEnglish
    41•7 hours ago

    This is why Rubes want private and charter schools, they are easier to grift families with.

    • @NatakuNox
      9•6 hours ago

      Yup and the moment public schools go under (likely here soon with the DOE being dismantled) private and charter school prices are going to skyrocket. Wealthy people don’t want poorer people to be educated or even able to speak if they had it their way.