California is spending about $5.7 billion on its community colleges this year. But no one in state government can say how much community colleges spend on executive compensation because the state doesn’t collect the information… The lack of information about community college compensation is in stark contrast to the state’s other public education systems, which make salary data available to the public with just a few clicks of a mouse. The state Department of Education collects and publicizes the data from California’s K-12 school districts. The California State University and the University of California post executive compensation on their websites. The state controller’s office has begun to collect salary data for local government employees, but the community colleges are not included.

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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: February 27th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.